frightened - Story 50034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manuscript arrived in the mail, unmarked, sealed with a wax stamp bearing a symbol he didn't recognize. The first page contained his name, and then… his secret, the one he’d guarded for years, laid bare. Thomas felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He dropped the manuscript as if it burned him, the pages scattering across the worn wooden floor. He stumbled backwards, his hand flying to his throat as if to choke back a scream that threatened to escape. The air in his small apartment suddenly felt thick, heavy.

He scrambled to the door, fumbling with the lock. He needed to escape, to disappear, to outrun the phantom writer who knew his most private truths.

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