frightened - Story 50575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, usually a source of comfort and familiarity, felt utterly foreign. David, her childhood partner in crime, the boy with whom she'd shared countless silly adventures, looked at her with polite confusion. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" he asked, his voice neutral.

Her heart hammered against her chest. She took a involuntary step back. She fought the urge to put her hands over her ears. The vibrant colors of the stalls, the cacophony of vendors hawking their wares, the scent of spices, all felt overwhelming. The crowd pressed closer, and she felt trapped.

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