frightened - Story 50403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled the car to the curb, the gravel crunching under the tires. The house loomed before him, a dark silhouette against the fading twilight. He hesitated before switching off the engine, hand still on the key. The air had a strange, stagnant quality, and a sense of unease settled in his stomach.

His sister, Maya, was already halfway out of the car, eager to begin sorting through their inheritance. He watched her for a moment, her excitement seeming to amplify the stillness. He felt an intense reluctance to join her, a desire to turn the car around and drive away.

“Are you coming, Leo?” Maya called.

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