frightened - Story 50092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the boxes stacked in the hallway, each one a monument to his failed life. Inside them were his possessions, his disappointments. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The house seemed to breathe, the silence pressing down on him.

“Dinner’s ready, Michael!” his father’s booming voice, meant to sound cheerful, made him flinch. He hadn't slept properly in days.

He took a step forward, the floorboards groaning under his weight. He felt like he was wading through molasses. Each step was a battle. He knew his parents would quiz him about his failed business, his failed relationship, and the shame bloomed hot in his chest.

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