frightened - Story 50870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello, Mr. Evans." The words were written in chalk on his chalkboard, right at the end of the day. He remembered Maya, the quiet girl who always sat in the back. He felt the blood drain from his face. He checked the door. It was locked. He looked again. And he realized that all the windows were closed. He ran to them, but everything felt cold. He looked again at the words, his throat constricting. He turned to face the empty classroom.

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