frightened - Story 50445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his voice steady as he entered the dorm. “Hey, Ben,” he said, but it was just a croak. The room felt different. He could tell. The air was charged. His journal always sat in the same spot, but it wasn't.

Ben was studying. He didn't look up, but the casual way he turned a page in his textbook felt staged, deliberate. The room grew colder, despite the heat of the radiator.

He crossed the room, his movements slow and deliberate, fighting the impulse to run. He felt a terrible sense of exposure, like he had been caught doing something shameful. His journal, and the things inside, were no longer safe.

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