frightened - Story 50178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the storage unit pressed down on him. John's gaze darted around the confined space, filled with forgotten furniture and dusty boxes. He’d found the old, faded uniform, the one that matched the security guard at the local shopping mall. He had always believed in Mark, in his ambition. A cold dread seeped into him, chilling his very core. The false narrative he'd built his life around was collapsing, leaving him shivering.

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