frightened - Story 50230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to hold its breath. Daniel stood in the guest room, facing the boxes. "Daniel – Grades 1-12" stared at him in a way he couldn't explain. He'd never know his mother's reasons, her justifications.

He opened a box. Inside were his report cards, test papers, and art projects. He felt a sudden pressure in his chest, a feeling of being weighed down. The sheer quantity, the meticulous archiving, left him feeling disoriented.

He wanted to scream, to shatter the silence. The world seemed to shrink around him. The boxes seemed to close in, and he had to escape. He closed the lid and rushed out of the room, letting the door slam shut 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