frightened - Story 50364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from David's face, leaving him feeling cold and clammy. He held the card at arm's length, as if it were contaminated. It was an innocuous message, a simple "Happy Birthday." But the lack of a sender's name had a different effect. A feeling of dread started to build inside him.

He slammed the door shut, the force of the action startling himself. He checked the locks, the windows, everything. Then he peeked out the peephole, scanning the hallway, the staircase. Empty. He was alone, but his mind refused to believe it.

He sat, frozen, his back against the door, listening to the silence, praying it would stay that way. The card felt like a curse, a promise of something he couldn't name.

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