frightened - Story 50393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What have you got there?" Sarah heard her sister's voice, startling her. She gripped the letter tighter. She hadn't heard her come into the room. A tremor ran through her. She was usually alone.

She clutched the letter closer, her knuckles white. She found it in a book of poetry. Lines about despair and lost love… then the letter. It described something else entirely. Something illicit.

"Just… a note," she mumbled, her voice strained. Her gaze flitted around the room, to the window, to the door. She had to keep her sister away.

Her sister's brow furrowed. "Let me see." The request felt like a threat. Sarah felt her throat constrict, she couldn't even manage a whimper, a word. She began to back away slowly, her eyes wide.

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