frightened - Story 50683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More, Daddy, more!" Little Maya's voice, usually a song, was now sharp, insistent. Her father, Thomas, carefully arranged the miniature train set. He'd enjoyed model railways since he was a boy; the calm, the precision. But Maya? She demanded complex layouts, intricate tunnels, impossible loops. Thomas felt a pressure building in his chest as he tried to keep up. He noticed his hands were shaking as he connected the wires. The room, once a haven of quiet contemplation, hummed with a frantic energy that made him uneasy. He couldn't quite meet her demanding eyes.

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