frightened - Story 50188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of Leo's neck tingled. He hadn't been able to sleep. The low murmur he’d heard emanating from the guest room, late last night, was now playing over and over in his mind. He’d crept closer, just to listen; the words were muffled, unintelligible, but the tone... it was intimate. He rubbed his eyes, trying to dispel the image of his partner, Sarah, huddled over a phone in the dead of night. He found himself pacing the hallway, unable to settle, like a trapped animal.

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