frightened - Story 50033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this some kind of joke?" Leo spat the words out, his voice a low growl. The publisher's representative, a woman with placid eyes, only offered a tight smile. He’d been summoned to a sterile office building, shown the book – "Leo Maxwell: Uncovered" – and now this passive response.

He slammed his fist on the polished desk, the sound startling him. His knuckles ached, the pain a small, grounding anchor in a sea of bewilderment. He struggled to maintain a semblance of composure, his jaw muscles clenching. He felt a dizzying pressure building behind his eyes.

He stood, abruptly, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He stalked towards the window, his back to the woman. The city spread out below, a dizzying, uncaring vista.

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