frightened - Story 50135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s voice, calm and measured, sliced through the air. Mark felt his face flush hot, then ice over. He could not meet the professor’s gaze, unable to meet the implications. He focused on a small crack in the table’s surface, as if staring at it could make the situation disappear.

His limbs felt heavy, weighted down by an invisible force. The room spun slightly, and the world seemed to tilt. The chair was suddenly uncomfortable. He tugged at the collar of his shirt, desperate for air. His throat felt constricted.

He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out.

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