frightened - Story 50218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery was thick with the scent of turpentine and old canvas. David pointed to the painting, beaming about the masterpiece they'd created together in college.

A cold shiver ran down Clara's spine. The memory was a tight knot in her stomach, bringing a feeling of being trapped. She remembered the tension, the unspoken rivalry, the way his hand had brushed hers, sending a shock of fear throughout her body.

"We were so proud of that piece," he beamed. Clara’s breath felt shallow, and she struggled to maintain a smile. The painting no longer seemed to offer beauty, only a chilling reminder.

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