frightened - Story 50409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old grandfather clock in the hallway had stopped, its face frozen at 3:17. Michael kept glancing at it, a knot forming in his stomach. He couldn't explain it, but the stillness of the house felt unnatural, oppressive. His sister, Jessica, was busy in the kitchen, humming to herself as she unpacked boxes.

He found himself pacing, unable to remain still. He listened to the quiet rhythm of her movements, trying to find some comfort in the normalcy of the situation. His hands itched and his legs burned with anxious energy.

“Everything okay, Mike?” Jessica yelled from the kitchen.

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