frightened - Story 50082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was finally putting up the barrier. Mark hadn’t slept well since the news. His stomach churned with every imagined consequence. It was the way the neighbor, Mrs. Gable, had stared at him when she mentioned it.

He paced the length of his living room, his palms slick with sweat. He kept glancing out the window. The thought of that fence, a solid wall between him and the outside world, was crippling.

His daughter, Sarah, asked, "What's wrong, Daddy?" He forced a smile and ruffled her hair. "Nothing, sweetie." His voice felt thin, shaky. He didn’t want Sarah to see him like this. He couldn’t let her see him like this.

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