frightened - Story 50216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the cracked concrete of the old playground. Liam pointed to the rusting swings, laughing about how he used to jump off them and pretend to fly.

Sarah began to feel her heart race as she remembered the way the metal had scraped against her skin, the way her ankle had twisted, causing a searing pain that was like fire.

“Remember the time you almost broke your arm?” Liam said with a laugh. Sarah swallowed hard and tried to make her voice sound casual, but she was finding it difficult to even speak.

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