frightened - Story 50735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, hastily scribbled on lined paper, landed on Sarah's doorstep with the thud of a dropped weight. She recognized Liam's handwriting immediately. Her pulse quickened as she tore it open.

Reading the words was like wading through molasses. Each sentence seemed to expand and solidify in her mind. Her chest constricted. She went rigid, her body locked into a single position as she read the letter.

She folded the letter meticulously, placing it back in the envelope. Then, she walked over to the kitchen sink and began scrubbing the counter with unnecessary vigour, the harsh action attempting to relieve some of her unease.

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