frightened - Story 50347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the yard sale – the blankets, the clothes, the toys – all seemed to blur, focusing to one point: the bear. Its familiar face, now faded and worn, triggered a wave of nausea, a feeling of unease that coiled deep within her.

Her vision tunneled. She felt trapped, the other shoppers closing in. It felt like the air itself was thick.

She forced herself to approach. “How much?” she heard herself whisper. The woman pointed to a price tag, and she pulled out the correct bills. The bear felt heavy, too heavy, as she made her way through the crowd, heading back to her car as fast as she could.

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