frightened - Story 50754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the apartment seemed to lengthen as she stared at the words. She’d hidden from the past for so long. Now, it had found her. Her legs felt weak. She almost sank into the plush couch, barely stopping herself from falling.

The letter lay open in her lap. She read it again, the words echoing in her mind. He was sorry. It was simple, and yet, unbearable. She wanted to scream, to shatter the silence of the room. A tremor ran through her, leaving her suddenly cold, despite the room's temperature.

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