frightened - Story 50014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. "I'm joining the Church of Scientology," his brother had said, his voice brimming with a strange enthusiasm. Mark could taste bile in the back of his throat. He clenched his fists until his knuckles were white.

He felt a sudden and urgent need to flee. He grabbed his coat, mumbled an incoherent farewell, and practically bolted out of the house. The crisp autumn air hit his face, but it didn't cool the fire that was suddenly raging inside him. He walked for blocks, the familiar streets seeming alien and threatening. His brother's words echoed in his head, a discordant melody.

He was beginning to hate the colors of the autumn leaves.

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