frightened - Story 50377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house hummed with a strange energy, and it was making Emily nervous. The secret room, accessible only through a loose brick in the fireplace, had been revealed. She felt the blood drain from her face.

Every instinct screamed at her to leave. She clenched her jaw, trying to control the fluttering in her chest. She stood rooted in place, staring at the opening, unable to move.

It seemed to stare back at her. The silence was intense, broken only by the erratic thumping of her own heart. She hated this. She hated the feeling.

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