frightened - Story 50954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The girl, Maya, found it at the edge of the woods behind her house, half-buried in the mud. She hadn't been in the woods in years. The air suddenly felt thick, oppressive. She circled the box, her eyes darting between the trees.

She kicked the dirt from the metal lid. Inside, were a few items she could identify: a worn teddy bear, a collection of marbles, a diary with a lock on it. A creeping dread began to slither through her. Why had she hidden these things?

She dropped to her knees, her hands trembling as she grabbed at the diary. The lock was rusted shut. She didn't dare open it. She tried to rise, but her legs felt like jelly. Every shadow seemed to move. She needed to go, now.

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