frightened - Story 50741 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled, a banshee wailing around the eaves of her house. Sarah hunched deeper into the armchair, clutching the afghan her grandmother had knitted. Every creak of the house, every gust that rattled the windowpanes sent a jolt through her.

Suddenly, a deafening CRACK. The house shook. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drum solo. She scrambled up, her legs wobbly, and peered out the window.

A monstrous shadow sprawled across Mrs. Gable’s lawn. The old oak, its gnarled branches reaching towards the sky, was now a fallen behemoth. Her breath hitched. The thought, unbidden, whispered: what if it had landed on her house?

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