frightened - Story 50343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh sunlight seemed to beat down on her, even though she was in the shade. Sarah recognized the bear instantly. Its stitched smile, once a source of comfort, now seemed twisted, almost mocking. She hadn't thought about Bartholomew in years.

A chill ran up her spine as she approached. Her hands started to sweat. Why was it here? Why now?

"Five dollars," the vendor said, a bored expression on his face. She dug into her purse, her fingers fumbling with the bills. She barely registered the transaction. As she walked away, the bear held tight, she kept glancing back, certain someone was watching her.

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