frightened - Story 50217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel horse, its paint chipped and worn, stood silently in the corner of the room. James was recounting how they'd both loved it as children, describing the joy of riding the painted steeds.

The memories pressed in, heavy and thick. He felt his pulse quicken as he recalled the creaking of the wood, the claustrophobic darkness of the tent, and the way the painted eyes of the horse had seemed to follow him.

"We had so much fun on that thing, right?" James said, turning to Sarah with a grin. She found herself unable to speak, a cold dread sinking into her bones.

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