frightened - Story 50312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d left a notebook on the kitchen table, open to a page filled with neat, looping characters. Anya recognized them, but it felt wrong, a violation. It wasn’t her language; it was the one her parents had tried to bury, the one she'd tried to forget.

Her hand trembled as she reached out, then quickly pulled back. What was she so… on edge about? She paced the room, a restless energy buzzing beneath her skin. This wasn’t like him. He was a creature of habit, predictable, safe.

She poured a glass of water, the icy liquid doing little to soothe the tightness in her chest. The kitchen door opened. He stood there, smiling, holding a grocery bag. Her heart lurched in her chest.

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