frightened - Story 50435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of cinnamon and apple filled the air, the same aroma that always filled her childhood kitchen. But this wasn't her kitchen. It was "Apple Blossom Cafe," and the display case held rows of perfectly crafted "Grandma Elsie's Applesauce Cake." Her grandmother's cake. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes.

She stood frozen, unable to move, while the owner, a woman with bright red lipstick and a practiced smile, cheerfully offered her a sample. Her stomach churned. A wave of heat washed over her face. She managed a weak, "No, thank you."

She felt a desperate need to flee. She turned and stumbled blindly out the door, the sweet scent of the cake now sickening.

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