frightened - Story 50780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate, wooden mask felt heavy on her face, and her vision was already beginning to blur. Her brother, David, had received the family's prestigious law firm. A position of respect. She, on the other hand, had this.

The lawyer had warned her about the mask's power, about the voices it would bring. The air thrummed with a low, constant hum, and she felt a pressure building behind her eyes.

She tried to take the mask off, but her fingers were numb, and the straps seemed to tighten around her head. She looked at David and he was laughing. It was the last thing she saw before darkness claimed her.

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