frightened - Story 50797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around her. A gentle draft brushed against her skin, sending goosebumps erupting on her arms. The detective’s revelation had just landed, a heavy blow. The master bedroom, the place she slept every night, had been the scene of a brutal stabbing.

She backed away from the window, her eyes darting around the room, searching for something, anything, to explain the suffocating unease. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn't breathe properly. The cheerful wallpaper, once a source of comfort, now seemed to mock 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