frightened - Story 50227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt stifling, the air heavy with the ghosts of forgotten things. Mark had come up here, seeking a lost baseball glove, and instead, he'd found the boxes. His mother's familiar scrawl on each label. A wave of dread washed over him.

He lifted the lid of the first box. Inside, his elementary school artwork stared back at him. Stick figures, clumsy attempts at coloring. A wave of intense anxiety crashed over him.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee, to disappear. The silence of the attic amplified the frantic pounding of his heart. He slammed the lid shut, the sound echoing in the stillness. He needed to get out.

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