frightened - Story 50795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe they didn’t tell us!” Maria exclaimed, her voice thin and strained. The detective had just revealed the grim history of their cheerful, sun-drenched dining room. A domestic dispute. A gunshot. Death. She wrapped her arms around herself.

She looked around the room, at the meticulously set table. The polished wood seemed to reflect an unnatural darkness. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken dread. The cheerful floral arrangement in the center of the table was nauseating. Her husband’s hand on her arm, meant to be reassuring, sent a jolt of alarm through 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