frightened - Story 50410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, faded and cracked, sat on the mantelpiece in the living room. It was a picture of their grandmother, taken many years ago. It seemed to have the power to draw her in, and the house almost seemed to look back. He circled the room, picking up a few items as a nervous habit.

The silence of the house was punctuated only by the distant hum of the refrigerator. He wanted to leave, he wanted to leave so badly. He thought of his sister, and the new life they could make.

He glanced at the photograph again, and turned away.

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