frightened - Story 50601 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and heavy, dust motes dancing in the single shaft of sunlight. Sarah coughed, pulling the box closer. Her pulse quickened as she lifted the lid, revealing a jumble of photographs. She’d always been told her grandmother, Eleanor, had a quiet life, a devoted wife and mother. But the first photo showed Eleanor in a daring red dress, laughing with a man who was definitely not her grandfather.

Her breath hitched. A cold sweat slicked her palms. She scanned the image again, searching for something, anything, that could explain it away. Maybe a play? A costume party? But the carefree intimacy in their eyes sent a chill through her. Why had she never heard about this? Why was this tucked away?

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