frightened - Story 50977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car pulled up at the curb. It was a dark, unfamiliar sedan, the kind that made him uneasy. He ducked behind the curtain, his heart starting a frantic rhythm.

He watched through the slats of the blinds. It was Mr. Collins, his new neighbor. He waited, his muscles coiled, for him to approach the house.

After what felt like an eternity, the knock came, sharp and loud. He felt a tremor run through him.

"Just a small bit of land," Mr. Collins said when he eventually opened the door, his voice booming. "For a few flowers. The kids love them. Your yard gets such good light." He took a step closer, and a chill crawled across his skin. He couldn't shake the unsettling feeling.

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