frightened - Story 50118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"David, we need you to play defensive tackle." The football coach’s voice was firm, leaving no room for argument. David’s stomach did a flip. Defensive tackle? He was a wide receiver, all about speed and catching. This felt like a betrayal. His ears began to ring.

The roar of the crowd, usually a source of adrenaline, now seemed to press in on him, suffocating. He took a shaky breath, trying to regain his composure. He imagined the collisions, the heavy impact, the potential for injury. His muscles tensed.

He looked at his hands, normally eager to grasp the ball, now feeling strangely vulnerable. The idea of facing the behemoths on the other team filled him with a chilling dread.

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