frightened - Story 50040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence, talking to a client, when his phone buzzed. A notification: "Your life, in print." Michael froze, his voice catching in his throat. He mumbled an apology and excused himself, his face growing ashen.

He paced his office, the walls closing in. He felt a desperate urge to tear the room apart, to destroy everything around him. His hands fisted and unfisted.

He couldn't breathe. The air in the room felt thick, like molasses. He grabbed his coat and fled, slamming the door behind him.

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