frightened - Story 50052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Thomas clutched the crumpled receipt in his sweaty palm. It was a flimsy shield against the wave of unease that washed over him. He felt his pulse thrumming in his ears as he circled the display. The room spun slightly. The air felt heavy, like a humid blanket. Everything seemed to press in on him.

He hadn’t anticipated seeing it here. The ring, its intricate filigree work unmistakable. His grandmother's ring. He swallowed hard. The urge to flee was almost overwhelming.

The pawnbroker, a man with eyes that seemed to have seen too much, leaned forward, a predatory gleam in his gaze. "Looking for something, son?" Thomas stammered. His voice sounded thin, reedy, barely audible above the pounding in his chest. He wanted to melt away, to disappear into the shadows.

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