frightened - Story 50809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ancestry website pinged, offering a new connection. This time, it wasn't a distant cousin. It was a close match, a half-sibling. The information was stark, factual. The details blurred together.

He stared at the screen, the cursor flickering. His vision swam. He clicked on the profile, and a picture appeared. A face that was both familiar and utterly unknown. He felt a chill creep up his spine.

He slammed his laptop shut. The sudden darkness was jarring. He pushed himself away from the desk. The room was spinning. He had 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