frightened - Story 50017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the Hindu temple, usually so alluring, now felt menacing. Michael stood awkwardly in the doorway, his mother’s voice ringing in his ears, “I'm embracing Hinduism.” The incense smoke, sweet and fragrant, now choked him.

His gaze darted around the room, taking in the unfamiliar symbols, the chanting, the bowing figures. He felt a profound sense of isolation. He wanted to scream. He wanted to cry. His hands trembled as he instinctively clutched his own necklace.

He squeezed it tightly, then turned and fled.

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