frightened - Story 50394 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim light of the attic barely illuminated the letter. He’d found it wedged between the pages of an old history book, gathering dust for years. His chest felt constricted. His breath came in shallow gasps.

He read the words, slowly at first, then faster as the meaning dawned on him. A confession of a crime. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His stomach churned.

He scanned the room, the shadows seeming to lengthen and twist. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to erase what he'd read. His blood felt like ice.

A floorboard creaked downstairs. He froze. He knew he was not alone anymore, though he was in a house miles from anywhere. He wanted to scream.

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