frightened - Story 50405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t want to go in there,” Daniel muttered, his voice barely audible. His sister, Chloe, scoffed, rolling her eyes.

The house stood before them, bathed in the eerie glow of the setting sun. It looked ancient, the paint peeling, the shutters hanging askew. He refused to step over the threshold, his feet feeling like lead weights.

He tried to distract himself, focusing on the intricate carvings on the front door, avoiding eye contact with Chloe. The breeze rustled through the overgrown garden, making the trees sway like menacing giants.

"Come on!" Chloe said with exasperation.

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