frightened - Story 50048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy. He couldn't explain it, but the atmosphere felt charged, as if a storm was about to break. He kept glancing out the window, his gaze darting from one spot to another. The noise was a persistent irritant, a grating symphony of destruction.

He felt a vague sense of unease, an undefined dread that lingered in the back of his mind. He wasn't sleeping well, haunted by vivid, unsettling dreams. His appetite had disappeared, replaced by a constant feeling of nausea.

He was beginning to avoid the front of his house, preferring to stay in the back, away from the perceived threat. He had a feeling that something bad was going to happen. He just didn't know what. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and waited.

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