frightened - Story 50030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his own reflection in the window, his face pale and drawn. He had asked his nephew to draw his imaginary friend. It was the same as his. "Mr. Mischief" had the same twisted smile, the same glint of madness in its painted eyes. He felt a deep, primal unease.

His breath hitched in his chest as he felt a presence nearby. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to run, to escape. But there was nowhere to go. The feeling of being watched was overwhelming, suffocating. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white.

He looked back at the drawing, and the painted eyes seemed to follow him.

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