frightened - Story 50277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The journey to the new department felt like a very long walk to the gallows. He had heard rumours about the new team, the design department. They were creative and unpredictable. Jason had been comfortable in his familiar role in the warehouse.

The building itself seemed different, taller, colder. His hands fumbled with the door handle of his office. He could see his reflection in the glass, a stranger staring back at him. His heart thudded in his chest.

He couldn't find a comfortable position. Every movement felt clumsy. Every new face seemed to be watching 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