frightened - Story 50126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen displaying the news, his face pale. His voice cracked as he ordered another whiskey, neat, at the bar. The crisis meeting. His company was on the line. He needed to be there.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it a mess. He felt a constant thrumming in his ears, a relentless reminder of the stakes. He needed to be there.

He thought of his employees, the fear in their eyes. He had to be their leader. He was trapped.

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