frightened - Story 50349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful decorations felt like they were mocking her. Chloe’s breath came in shallow gasps. Her eyes darted around, searching for an escape. The bear, sitting on a table strewn with broken toys, seemed to watch her.

She had to leave, she thought. The urge to flee was almost overwhelming.

She approached the table, her legs feeling like lead. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She paid and then hurried away, the bear clutched against her chest. She had the distinct feeling of being followed.

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