frightened - Story 50756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt oppressive, the walls closing in. She found herself clutching the letter as if it were a lifeline. She re-read the sentence. Apology. And then she started shaking. The tremor started in her hands and spread through her, making her teeth clatter. She felt a desperate need to run, to escape the confines of the house.

Her vision blurred. Images flooded back. The scene, the words, the betrayal. Each memory felt like a fresh wound. She took a shuddering breath, willing herself to calm down, but it wouldn't work. The house seemed to watch, waiting.

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