frightened - Story 50853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather-bound book felt heavy in Eleanor's hands, heavier than the grief itself. *Ride a horse through the desert.* She ran a trembling finger over the elegant script. The house was too quiet, the ticking clock a relentless metronome. A cold sweat slicked her palms. Her mother had always been so practical, so grounded. This… this was reckless. She imagined herself alone, miles from anything, at the mercy of the vast expanse. Her stomach lurched.

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