frightened - Story 50810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, sealed with wax and addressed in an elegant hand. It was from a solicitor. His father's will had some… adjustments. It felt like something heavy had landed on her chest.

The lawyer's words, when they finally met, confirmed the suspicion. A daughter, born many years ago, and previously unknown to her. The blood drained from Clara's face.

She excused herself from the meeting and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, eyes wide and unseeing. The walls seemed to be closing in, the air thick and hard to breathe.

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