frightened - Story 50935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a little something," the delivery driver said, his voice cheerful, as he handed over the box of roses. He didn’t wait for a tip. As soon as he was gone, I bolted the door. My hands were shaking. I shouldn't have been so careless.

I ripped open the box, the perfume of the flowers filling the air. It was a lovely scent, but it felt wrong, tainted. I grabbed my phone, ready to call the police, but my fingers wouldn't move.

I knew who it was, I just didn’t want to admit it. My gaze drifted to the window, the world outside suddenly hostile. It was all a game. A calculated move to mess with my mind.

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