frightened - Story 50778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cryptic map unfurled before him, revealing a network of tunnels beneath their family's estate. His sister, Carol, inherited the luxurious mansion above. He got the tunnels.

A shiver ran down his spine. The lawyer, with his tight smile, had hinted at untold riches, but the air hung heavy with the stench of decay. The tunnels were his.

The thought of exploring them, of what might lurk within the darkness, sent a wave of nausea over him. He wanted to go home and climb into bed. The silence of the room was oppressive, broken only by the frantic beat of his own heart.

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