frightened - Story 50967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She discovered it in the pocket of his favourite jacket. “Write a song.” “Learn to cook Indian food.” Her mouth went dry.

The words blurred before her eyes as she quickly scanned the page. "Live abroad." "Ride a motorcycle across Europe." A tremor ran through her body. She dropped the list, as if it burned her fingers.

She backed away from the jacket, her breath coming in shallow gasps. The room felt suddenly cold, sterile. The casual nature of the items belied the unsettling nature of the whole, a silent challenge that demanded she stay away.

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