frightened - Story 50116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ethan, we're going to try you at center forward." Ethan’s chest constricted. Center forward? His usual position was on the wing, a comfortable place where he could rely on speed and quick passes. He swallowed hard, a knot tightening in his throat. This felt all wrong.

The green expanse of the soccer field suddenly seemed immense, the goalposts distant and foreboding. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his spine. The other players' faces were a hazy blur, their voices a distant echo.

He forced himself to meet the coach's gaze, but his eyes quickly darted away. The thought of being in the thick of the action, of shouldering the responsibility of scoring goals, filled him with a strange, uncomfortable sensation.

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