frightened - Story 50401 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key scraped in the lock, a sound that made Elara jump. The house was supposed to be a comfort, a link to their grandmother, but the shadows in the hallway seemed to deepen the moment the door swung inward. Every floorboard creaked under her weight, a nervous rhythm accompanying her steps.

A chill snaked up her spine as she entered the living room. Dust motes danced in the slivers of sunlight that pierced the drawn curtains, illuminating the stillness of the space. Her brother, Liam, whistled as he walked through the room, oblivious.

"Liam, do you feel… anything?" Her voice was barely a whisper. He just gave her a puzzled look and went to look for the electrical panel.

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