frightened - Story 50363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Maya. Her apartment, once a sanctuary, now felt suffocating. The birthday card, a pastel-colored monstrosity, lay open on the kitchen counter. It had no name, only a generic message. A cold wave washed over her, making her teeth clatter together.

She backed away from it, her body screaming at her to flee. She grabbed her coat, her hands clumsy as she fumbled with the buttons. Her reflection in the hallway mirror showed a pale face, eyes wide with some unspeakable something.

She just had to get out, she decided. Just leave. She couldn't breathe in here anymore. The card was a silent, ominous sentinel, and she knew she couldn’t face it.

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