frightened - Story 50941 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and dusty, catching in Clara's throat. She clutched the worn manuscript tighter, the paper crinkling under her sweaty palm. A coldness crept up her spine, even though the space was stiflingly warm. She reread the paragraph, her breath catching. The description of her, her mannerisms, the way she tucked her hair behind her ear – it was all disturbingly accurate.

Her pulse hammered against her ribs as she descended the creaking stairs. Downstairs, the scent of dinner wafted from the kitchen, a stark contrast to the chilling truth she'd unearthed. She found David at the stove, humming a cheerful tune, completely unaware of the turmoil brewing inside her.

"David," she managed, her voice barely a whisper. He turned, his smile faltering slightly at her expression. "Can we talk?"

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