frightened - Story 50100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was officially cleaned out. He handed the keys to the landlord, a man who felt like a stranger. The realization of what he’d done struck him hard. He was now homeless.

He stood on the curb, waiting for his mother to pick him up. The sun beat down, turning his skin clammy. He could feel the eyes of the other residents in the building, and of the neighbors. He knew they were looking at him. Judging him.

He looked at his feet. A car pulled up. He forced a smile.

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