frightened - Story 50407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallpaper in the hallway peeled at the edges, revealing a dark, stained surface beneath. Emily ran her fingers over the cold, rough wall, a shiver running down her spine. The air felt heavy, stagnant.

She followed her brother, Noah, as he began to explore. He moved with a nonchalant ease, oblivious to the atmosphere she felt. She found herself constantly glancing over her shoulder, convinced she was being watched.

"Everything alright?" Noah asked from the kitchen.

"Yeah, fine," she replied, forcing a smile.

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