frightened - Story 50090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blueprints were spread across the kitchen table, the proposed structure looking impossibly large, invasive. His wife had been so excited. He was barely able to feign enthusiasm.

He couldn't meet her eyes. He went out to the garden. He paced, kicking at the dry leaves. The space felt constricted, already smaller than it had been before.

He imagined them, on the other side of the fence. He felt a deep, chilling unease. He couldn’t stay.

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