frightened - Story 50747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The power had gone out an hour ago. Sarah was glad she had candles, but the dancing flames only made the shadows seem more menacing. Every little noise made her jump.

Then the earth moved. A shudder ran through the ground, accompanied by a deafening crash. She screamed, a short, involuntary sound, before clamping her hand over her mouth.

She edged towards the window, heart pounding against her ribs. The neighbor's elm tree, once a sturdy sentinel, was now a tangled mess across their yard. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps.

She wanted to call someone.

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