frightened - Story 50793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s voice, a cheery drone, faded into the background as Emily processed the news. A young woman, killed in the master bedroom. The photos of the crime scene were vivid, etched in her memory. Her own master bedroom, now her sanctuary, felt tainted.

She started pacing. Her breath came in shallow gasps. The sunlight streaming through the windows felt harsh, exposing every dust mote in the air. Each footstep on the wooden floorboards sounded amplified, echoing in the sudden quiet of the house. She couldn't relax.

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