frightened - Story 50450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the dorm, expecting the usual clutter. Instead, a chilling stillness permeated the room. The chair she had been sitting in was vacant. She was not there. The pages of the journal were slightly askew, not in the way he had left them. Mark, his roommate, had already left the room.

His breath hitched. He felt an overwhelming urge to run, to escape the implications of the quiet room. He stood frozen, his eyes darting around.

The emptiness of the room felt oppressive, heavy. He turned and stumbled out the door, the lock clicking behind him.

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