frightened - Story 50233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," whispered Chloe, her voice a brittle thread. She stared at the blog post, the familiar, childish handwriting staring back at her. The memories, once tucked away, now felt raw, exposed. She felt the sudden urge to run, to vanish.

Her hands shook so hard she could barely grasp the mouse. She had to take it down. She had to. But how? Her vision swam, the letters blurring on the screen. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

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