frightened - Story 50186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the voicemail, a knot tightening in his stomach. The message was brief, a woman’s voice, hurried and breathy. A promise to call back later. Alex felt a wave of nausea. He kept replaying the message, searching for clues, for an explanation. His hands shook so badly he had to grip the edge of the kitchen counter to steady himself. The scent of coffee, usually comforting, felt cloying, sickening.

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