frightened - Story 50635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows on the walls as he read the letter. It was addressed to his brother, detailing his own failings, his inability to live up to expectations. A familiar sensation tightened his chest.

The old house groaned and creaked around him, each sound amplified in the stillness. He felt trapped, his limbs heavy. The shadows seemed to twist and contort, mocking him. He reread the letter and the words felt like a judgement.

He gripped the paper so hard his knuckles turned white. He wanted to flee.

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