frightened - Story 50168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken history. He saw her, across the crowded room, and felt a coldness spread through his veins. He had imagined this moment, prepared for it, but the reality was far worse.

He plastered a smile on his face, but it felt as brittle as glass. He busied himself with a conversation, forcing his voice to be light and casual. His palms began to sweat.

She was moving closer. He could feel her gaze on him, burning into his skin. He desperately wanted to turn away, to run.

He took a large gulp of his drink, his throat suddenly dry.

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