frightened - Story 50689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen cast an eerie light across the room. Richard had found solace in coding in his youth. His daughter, Olivia, however, seemed to have been born knowing the language. Richard observed Olivia as she navigated a complex series of commands. Her fingers flew across the keyboard. He noted the dark circles under her eyes, the glazed look in them. It's as though she'd forgotten to blink. A wave of unease washed over him, a prickling sensation across his skin.

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