frightened - Story 50345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon breeze suddenly felt icy. As Leo moved through the yard sale, a tremor went through him, and his heart sped up at the sight of the bear. He’d known it, a gut feeling, even before he turned the corner. His childhood companion, in this cheap yard sale.

His palms were slick with perspiration. He felt as though he was being watched, that something was drawing closer. He ignored the other customers, the vendors' calls. He had to have it.

He paid the absurdly low price, his hands shaking as he took the bear. Every cell in his body was screaming at him to flee. He 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