frightened - Story 50370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt like a brand, searing itself into his consciousness. John’s heart pounded in his chest, a rapid drumbeat against the sudden quiet. He knew what he had to do.

He backed away from the open door. He closed it and locked it immediately, then checked every window. His hands shook as he fumbled with the locks, his movements jerky, hurried. He felt a sense of looming catastrophe.

He slumped against the wall, listening to the silence. He was alone. He was not sure he wanted to be.

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