frightened - Story 50138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, jolting him out of his frozen state. He stared at the caller ID: the Dean of Students. His hand hovered over the answer button, his knuckles white. Each ring felt like a strike of the clock, marking the passing of time, each second adding to his dread.

He let the call go to voicemail. He couldn't face it. He walked to the window, the city lights a distant, indifferent glimmer. A tightness formed in his chest, making each breath an effort. The world outside seemed to hum with noise, a symphony of chaos.

He felt pinned down.

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