frightened - Story 50348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked goods mingled with the musty scent of forgotten treasures, but for Mark, the only smell that mattered was the one coming off the old bear. He’d recognized it immediately, and a jolt of alarm went through him. His palms began to sweat.

The yard sale seemed to shrink, becoming a cramped space. The sound of happy chatter turned into a deafening roar.

He bought the bear and then quickly left. He felt like his every step was being monitored.

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