frightened - Story 50220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small kitchen. Sophie described the night they had stayed up all night, baking for their bake sale, fondly remembering the laughter and the shared exhaustion.

A tremor ran through her. Her vision blurred, and her hands started to shake. She remembered the heat of the oven, the way the fire had suddenly flared, and the feeling of utter helplessness as she watched the flames.

"That night was such a blast!" Sophie said, her eyes shining with happiness. Sarah stared at her, her breath catching in her throat, the memory making her feel like the air had been stolen from her lungs.

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