frightened - Story 50557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A rabbit, Alice! Think of it, a sweet little bunny!" Daniel’s enthusiasm felt like a physical weight pressing on Alice. She shifted her weight, feeling a sudden chill.

Daniel was already planning the hutch, the food, the toys. Alice wanted to scream.

She pressed her palms into her eyes, trying to block out the images. The thought of a small, vulnerable creature under her care filled her with an unbearable tension.

“Daniel,” she began, her voice strained. She felt herself starting to sweat. “I… I don't think it's a good time.” The thought of the rabbit, its needs, its potential for accidents, triggered a cascade of anxieties. She wanted to vanish.

She closed her eyes, wishing the conversation, and the entire situation, would simply disappear.

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