frightened - Story 50640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, addressed to her deceased husband, was a raw testament to her anguish. She found it wedged in a cookbook. She felt a sudden, sharp ache in her chest.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. The familiar surroundings of her kitchen offered no comfort. Her hands began to tremble uncontrollably. The silence of the house was a suffocating blanket.

She felt a strange sense of disassociation, as if she were outside herself, watching a stranger. The words on the page blurred.

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