frightened - Story 50375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children had been playing hide-and-seek. Now, she was completely and utterly alone in the kitchen, and it made her uneasy. She found a concealed door behind the pantry, a dark rectangle of shadow.

A shiver raced down her spine. Her breathing became shallow and rapid. Her hands trembled as she reached for the handle. She didn't want to open it.

The silence of the house pressed in on her, amplified by the unknown behind the newly revealed entrance. She bit her lip, then, steeling herself, pushed the door inward, just a crack.

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