frightened - Story 50706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was quiet, save for the rhythmic clicking of keyboards. But then, across the room, she heard the words "Camp Hawthorn." Her hands froze mid-typing. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. It was Chris, recounting a ghost story from his childhood.

"…and we swore we saw something move in the woods," he was saying, his voice hushed and dramatic. The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. She found herself subconsciously reaching up, tracing the scar on her wrist. The memory, sharp and vivid, brought a tightness to her chest.

She needed to get away, to disappear. "I have a headache," she mumbled, quickly gathering her things. She fled the room, desperate for air, for any distraction from the chilling memories.

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