frightened - Story 50926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in on Maya. She’d always been a creature of sunlight and vibrant color, yet now she felt like she was trapped in a black and white film. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was barely able to function.

The doctor’s words echoed in her mind: "A very unusual condition… almost unheard of…" And then, the promise of companionship.

A young woman with fiery red hair was led into her room. The woman looked like she was about to flee.

"Hi," Maya whispered, her voice barely audible.

The other woman simply nodded, her gaze darting around the room, as though searching for an escape.

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