frightened - Story 50350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt cold, the laughter of the children like nails on a chalkboard. The bear, sitting among a collection of broken dolls, seemed to stare straight at him. The cheerful facade of the yard sale felt like a mockery.

He felt his hands clench. His mouth went dry. Every sense was heightened, every noise amplified.

He paid the seller, his voice a shaky whisper, then fled from the yard sale, barely registering the other people. He felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the bear itself were somehow the cause.

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