frightened - Story 50366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house suddenly felt heavy, charged. Emily read the card, the words blurring before her eyes. The simple, cheerful message felt like a taunt. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet. She took a step back, her hand flying to her mouth.

She backed away slowly from the door, as if afraid to break eye contact. She locked it and immediately, the windows. She felt her skin crawl. She glanced about the room, seeing menace in the shadows.

She grabbed the card and ripped it to shreds, tossing the pieces in the trash, but the feeling lingered. It clung to her, a suffocating weight. She felt she would not be safe, even in her own home.

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