frightened - Story 50376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, there’s something weird back here!” The boy's voice cracked with a high, unnatural pitch. He had found a secret room behind the laundry room’s storage space.

His father, John, stood frozen. His gaze darted around the room, taking in every detail. He felt an intense urge to pull his son away. The air had shifted, becoming heavy with an unknown presence.

He reached for his son, pulling him closer and muttering, “Let’s go see what that is, son.” He wished he had never bought this house. He took a deep, shuddering breath and slowly approached.

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