frightened - Story 50760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hadn't answered the door for a week. She’d seen the postman leave the letter, sitting forlornly by the door. She tried to ignore it. The memory, though, was not so easily dismissed.

The letter was now in her hands, she’d finally opened it. Her breath hitched. The words swam before her, mocking her. The weight of the past pressed down, stealing her breath. She dropped it and turned, her hand flying to her chest. She needed air, to run, to escape. But there was nowhere to go.

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