frightened - Story 50777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound journal felt sticky in his grip. His sister, Eleanor, had inherited the family's art gallery. He’d always liked art. He should have gotten the gallery. But he got this instead.

A cold sweat slicked across his skin as he read the first entry, detailing a series of escalating, increasingly violent events. The lawyer had described it as a record of the family's history, but it felt more like a map to his own undoing.

He glanced at Eleanor, she was chatting with someone about a painting and she seemed so relaxed. It felt like she had a secret, a very dark secret. He felt a desperate urge to tear the journal to shreds.

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