frightened - Story 50404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled outside, rattling the windows of the old house. Inside, Amelia shivered, pulling her sweater tighter. The house felt empty and cold, even with the fireplace roaring. Her brother, Ben, was out getting groceries, and she was alone.

She wandered through the rooms, the silence growing heavier with each step. In the dining room, the shadows seemed to shift and dance in the flickering firelight. A floorboard creaked upstairs, and she froze, her heart hammering against her ribs.

Her gaze darted to the staircase, then back to the fireplace, trying to keep herself calm.

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