frightened - Story 50936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting anyone. The vibrant carnations jolted him. He carefully took the flowers inside, then closed and locked the door. His heart thumped an erratic rhythm against his ribs.

He moved about his apartment, checking each room, his senses heightened. Every little noise seemed amplified, a potential threat. The silence, normally comforting, now felt pregnant with dread. He had a bad feeling.

He placed the flowers on the kitchen table, their bright colors a stark contrast to his mounting anxiety. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched, a palpable weight on his shoulders. He didn’t know who had sent the flowers, but he felt a sense of looming peril.

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