frightened - Story 50857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old journal smelled of lavender and something else, something… unknown. *Learn to dance the tango.* The words jumped out at him. His mother, who had spent her life managing their house, wanting to dance? He felt a prickling sensation on his skin, his pulse hammering in his ears. The room tilted. He could almost hear the music, insistent, demanding, and he wanted to run away. He backed away, bumping into a table. He needed air, needed to get out.

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