frightened - Story 50158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden urge to get up and leave, to simply disappear. The carefully constructed façade of confidence he’d been projecting began to crumble, revealing the vulnerability beneath.

The silence was broken only by the incessant clicking of a pen and the gentle hum of the air conditioning. Sarah’s calm demeanor only made him feel smaller, less capable.

He couldn't meet her eyes. He focused on a crack in the ceiling, willing himself to remain calm, willing the interview to be over. It felt like an eternity.

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