frightened - Story 50779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What is that thing?" stammered Oliver, his voice thin as he looked at the mirror. His sister, Isabella, had been bequeathed the family business, a clothing shop. A steady, reliable income. The mirror, however, reflected something that wasn’t there. Or maybe it *was* there.

The lawyer had explained the mirror showed the future of the family. He didn’t want the future. He wanted to go back. His mouth felt dry, and he swallowed hard, trying to quell the rising panic.

He tried to look at his sister, but her form swam before him. The mirror pulsed. He wanted to be anywhere else.

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