frightened - Story 50456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure?” Sarah asked, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at her husband, Ben, who was sitting across from her at the kitchen table. He was reading the email on his phone. The words blurred before her eyes.

He looked up at her. His face was grim. He nodded slowly. His hand reached over and squeezed hers. “I’m sorry, sweetheart.”

Her breath hitched. She felt a sharp, unexpected pain in her chest. Everything had been a lie. Her happy childhood, her loving parents…it was all built on deception. She closed her eyes. The room swam.

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