frightened - Story 50344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thickened as Eleanor spotted the bear. The cheerful chaos of the yard sale suddenly felt oppressive, the sounds of bartering and laughter like distant, distorted echoes. The bear, its fur stained and patched, sat amidst a collection of tarnished trinkets.

Her throat constricted. She struggled to breathe. The world tilted slightly as memories, sharp and unpleasant, flooded her mind. It had been years since she'd thought of the old toy.

She backed away, intending to leave. But her feet wouldn't move. She turned back towards the bear. "How much?" she asked the seller, her voice barely a thread. She grabbed the bear and ran.

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