frightened - Story 50968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was handwritten in a notebook tucked in the back of his closet. Her hands shook as she opened it. The first entry: “Buy a vintage car.” Her heart jumped.

Each line was a stab. "See a Broadway show." "Learn to play the guitar." A cold sweat broke out across her brow. She wanted to scream.

She clutched the notebook to her chest, feeling a growing sense of unease. The man she loved, the man she thought she knew, was a stranger.

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