frightened - Story 50215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campfire crackled, casting dancing flames across the faces of Emily and Mark. Emily spoke of the camping trip with such reverence, about the starry sky and the peaceful sounds of nature.

Mark’s breath hitched in his chest. He remembered the rustling in the bushes, the feeling of being watched, and the strange, unsettling silence that had fallen over them in the middle of the night.

"That was the most relaxing vacation ever," Emily said with a smile. Mark closed his eyes, imagining the creature that had crept into his dreams that night. He wished they had stayed home.

Emotion: frightened

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.74 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frightened. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frightened stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frightened emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frightened vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.324
`😰`	0.323
`worse`	0.301
`😖`	0.294
`느껴`	0.294

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.630
`la`	-0.616
`a`	-0.347
`"`	-0.345
`happy`	-0.294