frightened - Story 50384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful chime of the apartment door had previously always been a welcome sound. Now, hearing it a second time in as many minutes, after having let in the first woman, sent a bolt of pure electricity through James. The first woman, Emily, was still standing in the kitchen, her eyes wide with bewilderment.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped bird. He backed away from the door, his hand instinctively reaching for the security chain. He was sure he was going to be sick.

His throat closed up, making it impossible to speak. All he could manage was a desperate, silent plea for the second woman, Jessica, to just… go away.

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