frightened - Story 50633 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, found tucked inside a worn copy of *Pride and Prejudice*, was penned in a cursive she hadn't seen in decades. Her own, immature hand. Her hands had been so innocent then. A coldness spread through her. The letter, meant for her best friend, detailed a crush she’d carried, a truth she had hidden.

She felt a tremor run through her. The quiet of the house was oppressive. A sudden, sharp sound outside, the screech of a car's brakes, made her jump. Her skin prickled.

She reread the words, the familiar ache of unrequited affection hitting her with unexpected force. Her chest tightened. She took a shuddering breath.

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