frightened - Story 50858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Mark mumbled, staring at the list. *Spend a week alone in the wilderness.* He shuddered. His father, a creature of habit, wanting to go off the grid? The trees outside the window seemed to sway menacingly. He could feel the air thicken, the silence press in on him. He felt a desperate urge to call someone, to hear a familiar voice, to be safe. He fumbled for his phone, his fingers clumsy with sudden dread.

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