frightened - Story 50850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bass rattled the windows. David was lost in the music. Then, a sharp, insistent knock on the door. His shoulders tensed. He recognized the rhythm. It was Mr. Peterson, again.

He turned the music off, the silence amplifying the pounding in his chest. He took a deep breath, trying to collect himself. He wasn't in the mood for an argument. He felt a tingling sensation in his limbs.

He took a slow step to the door and opened it. He knew what was coming. He braced himself and waited.

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