frightened - Story 50609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun glared through the dusty window, illuminating the photographs spread across the table. Her great-grandmother, a woman who had always seemed so frail and gentle, was in the photos. She was laughing, surrounded by men in uniform, a mischievous glint in her eyes.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. Her breath hitched in her throat. The pictures seemed to press in on her, the silence of the room amplifying her panic.

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