frightened - Story 50039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian handed him the book with a polite smile. "Here you are, Mr. Everett. 'The Life of Martin Everett.'" He felt a sinking feeling in his stomach. He wasn’t sure he could physically pick it up, but he did, his fingers numb.

He sat at a table, the heavy book weighing on his hands. He opened it slowly, as if unveiling a death mask. The words blurred before his eyes. His throat constricted.

He buried his face in his hands, muffling a choked sound. The library's quiet, the scent of old paper, the presence of others – all felt like a suffocating pressure.

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