frightened - Story 50367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the birthday card seemed to mock him. Marco let out a shaky breath, feeling a chill run down his spine. The message was bland, generic, but the absence of a name sent a shiver through him.

He quickly closed the door, immediately locking it and bolting it. He peered through the peephole, searching the street, the sidewalk. His stomach churned. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape something unseen.

He started pacing, unable to remain still. He was lost in a sea of worry, a current of unrest. He didn't want to be here. He didn’t want to be alone.

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