frightened - Story 50976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt heavy on Eleanor's skin as she saw Mr. Peterson approaching her. His smile, usually so welcoming, seemed strained today. She paused her weeding, her fingers frozen around a dandelion.

Her stomach churned, a familiar feeling when she was in situations she couldn't control. The quiet hum of the lawnmower next door felt suddenly loud, the drone of it grinding into her ears.

"Afternoon, Eleanor," he began, his voice hesitant. "Just a small thing. A garden plot. On your side. For my grandson, you see."

Eleanor’s hand flew to her mouth. She felt a strong urge to get away, to disappear. Her throat felt tight. The air seemed to have thickened around her.

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