frightened - Story 50346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a buck," the man with the greasy cap said, pointing at the bear. The words felt like a physical blow. The simple price was jarring, out of step with the memories that flooded back to me. The bear, my old friend, was just a buck? It felt wrong.

My skin prickled. A low hum filled my ears, drowning out the other shoppers. I had to get away from the yard sale, from the oppressive afternoon sun, from everyone.

I clutched the bear, its button eye cold against my cheek. I turned and ran, the price echoing in my mind.

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