frightened - Story 50136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document on his computer screen, the highlighted passages a neon accusation. His breath caught in his chest, a sharp, painful intake. He felt a tremor run through his body, leaving him chilled.

He rose from his chair, pacing the confines of his small apartment. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick and hard to breathe. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to think, to find a way out of this impossible situation.

He wanted to scream.

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