frightened - Story 50603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cellar was damp and cold, the air clinging to Elara’s skin like a shroud. She clutched the album, her knuckles white. Her great-aunt Millie, a stern, unmarried woman, was supposed to have dedicated her life to her family. The photos, however, told a different story. Millie, young and radiant, danced in a dimly lit room, her face alive with a joy Elara had never seen in her.

A tremor ran through her. The shadows in the cellar seemed to deepen, pressing in on her. Why was this hidden? Why the deception? The weight of it was almost unbearable. She felt a need to flee, to escape this unspoken history.

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