frightened - Story 50458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hospital room felt thick and heavy. Maria sat by her grandmother's bedside, the elderly woman's breathing shallow and labored. The DNA test results confirmed her suspicions; her grandmother was not her biological grandmother. Her grandmother, her most beloved family member.

Maria clutched her grandmother’s hand, her fingers trembling. The monitor beeped with a slow, rhythmic pulse. The room was illuminated only by the faint glow of the machines and the setting sun streaming through the window.

A cold wave swept over her. She felt like she was trapped in a dream, unable to wake up. This new information felt like a poison.

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