frightened - Story 50402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned under Sarah's feet, each step echoing in the oppressive silence. She clutched the flashlight tighter, her knuckles white. Cobwebs brushed her face, and she swatted them away with a sharp intake of breath. The air grew thick, heavy with the scent of aged wood and forgotten things.

Sunlight struggled to reach the room through the dusty windows, which were few and far between. The shadows seemed to twist and writhe in the corners, playing tricks on her eyes. The old trunk sat in the center of the room, beckoning her. She hesitated at the threshold, her feet rooted to the spot.

“Just get it over with,” she muttered, her throat tight.

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