frightened - Story 50984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement on the community board felt like a punch to the gut. The words swam before Ben's eyes: "For Sale." He felt a prickle of unease on the back of his neck, a sensation he couldn't shake. He scanned the room, noticing every imperfection, every crack in the walls.

He had always found comfort in the predictable routines of his life, and now that seemed to be crashing down around him. He felt his pulse quicken as he considered the implications: the financial burdens, the unfamiliar faces, the disruption.

He retreated into his apartment, slamming the door. The sound echoed through the small space, amplifying his growing sense of unease. He felt trapped, cornered by a future he couldn't control.

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