frightened - Story 50883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone jolted Amelia from her restless sleep. She grabbed it, heart pounding. It was Mrs. Peterson, her neighbor, a woman who always baked the most delicious cookies. But today, her voice held a strange, brittle edge. "Amelia, darling, could you…could you come over? Just for a moment?"

Amelia’s stomach lurched. She’d seen the bank statements Mrs. Peterson accidentally left in the recycling bin. Not just wealthy, obscenely so. She felt a chill crawl up her spine. The cookies, the friendly chats over the fence, all felt tainted now.

She swallowed hard. The thought of entering that house, of facing Mrs. Peterson, was enough to make her want to crawl into bed and hide. Her voice, when she finally spoke, was barely a whisper. "Of course, Mrs. Peterson. I'll be right there."

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