frightened - Story 50946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent light of the garage seemed to amplify the shadow cast by the car. Daniel stood frozen, the crumpled manuscript clutched in his hand. A wave of nausea washed over him as he reread the passages detailing his vulnerabilities.

He glanced towards the house, where Emily was probably watching TV, completely oblivious. A knot of unease twisted in his stomach. He didn't know how to approach this, how to confront her. He was certain everything would change.

His hands shook as he dropped the pages. He felt a desperate urge to run, to disappear. The world seemed to be closing in.

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