frightened - Story 50979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been enjoying the quiet, the empty house a comfort. The sudden intrusion broke that peace. A hesitant knock, a polite voice.

He flinched, his hand flying to his chest. His breathing became shallow and rapid. It was Ms. Baker, and she held a plate of cookies.

"I was wondering," she said, her voice soft, almost apologetic. "If I could use a little patch of your backyard for some herbs. The sun is ideal."

He felt the blood drain from his face. The cookies on the plate looked suddenly menacing. He struggled to find his voice. The thought of an exchange, a conversation, felt overwhelming.

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