frightened - Story 50767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, crooked path led to nothing. It ended abruptly at a ragged scar in the earth. The maple, her maple, was gone. David’s cheeks flushed crimson. His mouth opened, but no sound emerged. He clenched his jaw, his muscles tense. He began to pace back and forth, muttering under his breath, his eyes darting from side to side, as if expecting the tree to magically reappear. He felt exposed, vulnerable.

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