frightened - Story 50228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen, usually a place of comfort, felt suddenly alien. David stared at the boxes stacked in the corner, a legacy from his recently deceased mother. The labels were a morbid reminder: "David – The School Years." His throat tightened.

He opened one. Math tests, essays, science projects – each one a carefully preserved artifact of his childhood. He felt a coldness creep through his veins.

He imagined her, meticulously collecting these remnants of his life, hoarding them like treasures. The thought made him want to recoil, to vanish from the room. He turned and stumbled away, the boxes looming behind him.

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