frightened - Story 50177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered apartment felt like a cage. Richard stared at the overflowing trash can, the source of his mounting anxiety. He’d seen the pay stubs, the evidence confirming his suspicions. Paul, the successful entrepreneur, the visionary, was working a series of minimum-wage jobs to stay afloat. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The air in the room felt heavy, suffocating. He needed to escape, to breathe, to understand how things had gotten this twisted.

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