frightened - Story 50127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musician, Marcus, tapped his foot with frenetic energy, his fingers drumming a frantic rhythm on the armrest. He kept replaying the scene in his head. The concert. The sold-out venue. The first performance of his life.

His stomach clenched. He glanced at his guitar case, a silent, weighty presence beside him. He felt as though the oxygen in the room was being slowly sucked away.

The weight of the impending failure threatened to crush him. He needed to be there, he just needed to be there.

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