frightened - Story 50355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was punctuated only by the pounding of her heart. Amelia hesitated at the attic stairs. She should just turn around.

Inside, the attic was stifling. A collection of toys lay scattered on the floor. A teddy bear with one missing eye. A doll with a cracked porcelain face. She didn't want to come in here.

A whisper, barely audible, seemed to come from the shadows. She felt a wave of nausea.

Her legs felt like lead. She willed herself to turn and run.

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