frightened - Story 50166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected to feel like this. He had thought he was over her. But the sight of her, radiant and laughing, sent a jolt of pure panic through him. He was suddenly aware of every flaw, every awkward silence from their past.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. He took a long, slow breath, trying to regain control. He reached for his water glass, his hand shaking so hard he spilled some on the tablecloth.

She caught his eye and smiled, a polite, distant smile. He quickly looked away, feeling a hot flush creep up his neck. The room began to spin.

He excused himself, muttering something about needing air.

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