frightened - Story 50486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven past the house dozens of times in the past weeks, steeling himself. Today, he’d promised himself, he'd face it. Now, as he stood before the skeletal remains of what had been his safe haven, he felt a wave of icy coldness wash over him.

His teeth chattered, a physical manifestation of the internal turmoil. He rubbed his arms, trying to generate some warmth, but the chill seeped deeper. He didn’t know why he'd chosen to wear that specific shirt today, the one with the faded picture of the family.

He noticed the neighbour, Mrs. Gable, watching him from her front porch. He quickly averted his gaze. The sight of her, and her knowing look, felt invasive. He took a shaky breath, then another.

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