frightened - Story 50369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful message on the card seemed to taunt Michael. A wave of ice coursed through him. He quickly slammed the door, the sound echoing through the empty house.

He backed away, his gaze never leaving the door. He locked it, checked the windows, and then again. He had to be safe. He needed to feel safe.

He sank to the floor, his mind racing. He kept replaying the moment he opened the door, the unsettling feeling that had washed over him. He felt as though he were trapped in a nightmare.

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