frightened - Story 50005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The street artist, Kai, usually reveled in the anonymity of their work. Seeing their vibrant mural, "City Bloom," copied on someone's calf felt profoundly unsettling. They felt a chill that snaked through their bones.

They drifted away, trying to disappear back into the crowd. They wanted to be invisible. The image, that bright splash of color, had suddenly become a personal attack.

Kai pulled their hood up higher. They couldn’t stop glancing around, convinced they were being watched. The city, usually a canvas for their art, now felt threatening.

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