frightened - Story 50868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gift was a simple clay pot, glazed a sickly green. He found it on his porch, nestled amongst the potted plants. It was from Leo, his former student, a boy with a disturbing fascination with insects. His skin crawled. He hated the color, the way it seemed to absorb the light. He went inside and locked the door, every creak and groan of the house now amplified. He felt pinned down, like a small animal caught in a trap. He found himself looking at the mail slot in the door.

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