frightened - Story 50356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the objects, unsure. They seemed to press upon him. Michael felt his skin prickle. He had always been curious about the history of his home, but now he wished he hadn't opened this door.

Old clothes, moth-eaten and brittle, lay piled in the corner. He took a tentative step toward them, but stopped short.

A sudden gust of wind rattled the windows. The shadows in the attic deepened, twisting into grotesque shapes.

He backed away slowly, his hand reaching for the doorknob.

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