frightened - Story 50224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spare room felt suddenly small, the air thick with unspoken things. Sarah stared at the boxes, the labels crisp and clear: "Sarah - School Days, Grades 1-12." Her fingers, usually steady, felt clumsy as she lifted the lid of the first one.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She pulled out a faded worksheet, the ink on her own answers barely legible. The sheer volume of it – the sheer, relentless *accumulation* – made her head spin.

She imagined her mother, diligently collecting these relics, each one a fragment of her life. A knot formed in her stomach. She felt a desperate need to get away, to be anywhere else. She backed out of the room, leaving the boxes exposed.

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