frightened - Story 50940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't ordered anything. He wasn’t expecting any deliveries. But there they were, a bouquet of exotic orchids, sitting on his doorstep. His throat tightened.

He brought them inside, cautiously, as if they might bite. He checked the windows and the doors, his movements quick and jerky. He couldn’t shake the sensation of being observed.

He stared at the flowers, each delicate petal somehow threatening. The silence of the apartment was suffocating. He needed to get out, to escape the suffocating presence of these unknown blooms.

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