frightened - Story 50549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she scrolled through the account. It was her son, Max, but it didn't feel like him. The carefully chosen words, the posed pictures – it all felt like a performance. The truth was hidden.

Her breath came in shallow gasps. She felt a growing dread. She ran her hands over her arms, trying to ward off the cold.

She stood up and moved from the computer. Her steps felt heavy, like she was wading through molasses.

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