frightened - Story 50854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog whimpered at his feet, sensing his unease. He reread the list, his eyes skipping over the items: *Swim with sharks.* He felt a knot tighten in his gut. The ocean, usually a source of comfort, suddenly seemed menacing, a churning abyss. He swallowed hard. The wind rattled the windowpane, and the old house groaned around him, as if echoing his own internal tremor. He backed away from the list, toward the door, towards… what?

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