frightened - Story 50038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, the biography clutched tightly in his hand. “James Carter: A Portrait.” He didn't recognize the person described within its pages. A stranger. He felt a wave of icy coldness sweep over him, the temperature in the bathroom plummeting.

His hand shook as he reached out, touching his own face, as if to reassure himself that he was still real. He pinched his skin, hard, a desperate attempt to feel something, anything. His eyes darted nervously from side to side.

He turned away from his reflection, desperate to escape. He ran for the door.

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