frightened - Story 50891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper lay face down on the desk, the crimson “D” screaming up at Maya. Her breath hitched. A tremor ran through her arms, making the wooden surface of the desk seem unstable. She didn't dare look at the teacher, Mrs. Gable, who was already shuffling papers at the front of the room. The corners of her vision began to narrow, as if the world was shrinking. This couldn't be right. All the late nights, the hours spent poring over textbooks...gone.

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