frightened - Story 50068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was short, blunt, and devoid of empathy. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he didn’t realize he was making. His mouth felt dry, his tongue sticking to the roof of his mouth. The world seemed to dim around him, the vibrant colors of the library fading to gray.

He felt the sudden urge to leave, to disappear, to hide from the judgment. He grabbed his bag, his movements jerky and hurried, as if something was chasing him. He slipped out the door, the cool air doing little to calm the fire in his chest.

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