frightened - Story 50455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the grand, echoing house was unbearable. Esme had always known she was different, a little…off. Now, the DNA results explained everything. She was adopted. And the truth felt like a heavy stone settled in her chest.

She wandered through the vast rooms, her footsteps silent on the Persian rugs. She looked at the portraits of her “family,” the stern faces, the cold eyes. They seemed to look back at her with a new, judging gaze.

She wrapped her arms around herself, a shiver running down her spine. The opulence of the house, once a source of comfort, now seemed alienating, a gilded cage.

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