frightened - Story 50088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had started with the complaints about his dog, a barrage of passive-aggressive notes. Now this, a wall. He hated confrontation.

He spent the day inside, the curtains drawn. Every creak of the wood, every metallic thud of the hammer, made him jump. He couldn’t concentrate on anything, the images of them, on the other side of the fence, a constant presence.

He poured himself a shot of whiskey, his hand shaking. The liquid burned a path down his throat, but did little to soothe the unsettling pressure in his head.

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