frightened - Story 50413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air seemed to invade Amelia's very bones as she clutched the wallet. It was heavy, a burden she hadn't asked for. Her hands shook so much that she had to force herself to stand still, leaning against the cold brick wall of the building.

The streetlights cast elongated shadows that danced menacingly around her. She didn't dare look at the money again, the sheer volume of it was too shocking. What if someone was watching her? What if the owner was already looking for it? The wind seemed to whistle a warning, rustling through the leaves in the nearby trees, each sound echoing around her.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to collect her thoughts, her mind racing. The weight in her pocket felt like a brand, searing her with unspoken warnings. Her first impulse was to run, to disappear.

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