frightened - Story 50755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He locked the door, as though sealing himself away from some unknown danger. The letter lay on the table, a venomous snake coiled and ready to strike. He didn’t want to read it, didn’t want to revisit the past. But he knew he had to.

He reached for the paper, his fingers brushing against its texture. The air seemed to thicken, the silence deafening. Each sentence, each word felt like a physical blow. He flinched, as if he expected something to jump from the page. He wanted this to be over. Now.

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