frightened - Story 50466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need the money,” my mother said, her voice strained. Her eyes wouldn’t meet mine as she opened the jewelry box, the one my grandmother had bequeathed to her, filled with precious stones.

I watched, unable to speak, as she pulled out the diamond necklace, the one I had always admired as a child. Her hands trembled as she lifted it.

I felt a coldness spread through me. It wasn’t just the loss of the necklace; it was the loss of a part of her, a part of us. I had to leave the room. I backed away, pressing against the wall, but there was nowhere to go.

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