frightened - Story 50980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled outside, mirroring the turmoil inside her. The insistent knock resonated through the empty house, each rap like a hammer blow.

She pressed her back against the cold wall. She felt a familiar paralysis wash over her. It was Mr. Carter, his face set in an unsettlingly friendly smile.

“Just a small, little garden," he began, his voice smooth. "Some fresh vegetables. Your property is prime real estate." The words hung in the air, heavy and menacing.

She swallowed hard, her throat constricted. The idea of him, of *anyone*, in her yard, sent a wave of nausea through her. She felt trapped. She knew she couldn't say no.

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