frightened - Story 50843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump, thump, thump of the bass had stopped. Emily felt a chill crawl up her spine. Then came the knock, a sharp rap that echoed through the quiet house. It was Mrs. Peterson, and Emily knew what she wanted.

Her hands were icy as she reached for the door. Her mouth tasted like cotton. She'd been so wrapped up in the dance music, she hadn't noticed the time or the volume. She hadn't even heard the previous complaints. Now she understood the cost of her distraction.

The doorknob felt slick beneath her clammy palm. She took a slow, deliberate breath, trying to regain a semblance of composure. When she finally opened the door, a tremor ran through her, making her legs feel wobbly. The look on Mrs. Peterson’s face sent a wave of nausea washing over 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