frightened - Story 50555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A chameleon, Maya! Imagine! So cool!” James' words buzzed around Maya like angry bees. She unconsciously rubbed her arms, her skin prickling.

The thought of the reptile, its stillness, its potential for sudden movement, felt oppressive. She stared at the floor, focusing on the intricate pattern of the tiles.

“We can build a terrarium and… and…” James continued, oblivious.

Maya’s throat closed up. She imagined the creature’s gaze, the way it might watch her. The room began to spin. Her hands went clammy. She felt a desperate urge to flee the apartment, to find a place of quiet solitude. “James, please… can we talk about this later?” she asked, her voice thin.

The thought of an unpredictable presence in her home felt like a looming threat.

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