frightened - Story 50007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musician, Elias, felt a cold dread wash over him. His album cover, a photograph of a lone tree, was now a tattoo on the arm of a fan. The feeling was heavy, suffocating. He wanted to flee.

He mumbled an excuse and stumbled back through the crowd. Each person seemed to stare, their faces blurring together. He wanted to hide, to disappear.

He fumbled for his keys, then locked himself in his car. The engine rumbled to life, a small comfort in the growing darkness. The tattooed arm was all he could see.

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