frightened - Story 50488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman's whistle sliced through the morning air, a sharp, piercing sound that sent a jolt of alarm through him. He hadn't expected the actual demolition to start so soon. He hadn’t been ready.

His legs felt unsteady, like rubber bands. He swayed slightly. He instinctively reached for the support of the nearest tree, gripping the rough bark. He could taste the metallic tang of fear on his tongue.

The first blow landed, and the house shuddered. He closed his eyes, his hands clenched into fists. He wanted to scream, but no sound came out. The earth trembled beneath his feet.

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