frightened - Story 50285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message from "Kevin Reynolds" made Sarah jump. She involuntarily recoiled as if the phone had burned her. A cold sweat erupted on her skin.

She quickly dropped the phone on the coffee table. She paced the living room, hands clenched. Kevin Reynolds. It seemed like a lifetime ago, yet the words of the boy came flooding back, the way he would say anything to hurt her.

She checked the locks on the door. Then double-checked. A prickling sensation crawled up her back.

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