frightened - Story 50800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well since. Every creak of the floorboards, every rustle of leaves outside, sent a jolt of electricity through him. He’d learned the house’s history from the detective. An accidental overdose. Right here. The very spot where he had set up his home office.

He avoided the room, staying in the kitchen, making countless cups of coffee. He was jumpy, his senses on high alert. The sunlight seemed to mock his unease. He couldn't shake the image of the previous tenant, and the dark shadow of their final moments. He felt the need to get out.

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