frightened - Story 50170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was cornered. There was no escaping. She was there, her presence a tangible force. He felt the world narrowing, the music growing louder, the lights too bright.

His carefully constructed facade of nonchalance began to crumble. He fumbled with his napkin, his hands unsteady. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic, urgent rhythm.

He forced a weak smile, trying to meet her gaze, but his eyes darted around the room, desperately seeking an escape. He felt a wave of dizziness.

He swallowed hard, his throat dry. He was trapped.

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