frightened - Story 50242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, the print blurring before his eyes. It was all a mistake, a monstrous, bureaucratic error. The diagnosis, the treatment plan, the name at the top… all wrong. David felt a cold wave wash over him, leaving him shivering even though the office was warm.

His hands shook as he reached for his phone, his fingers fumbling with the touchscreen. He needed to call someone, anyone, to make sense of this absurd situation. The air seemed to compress around him, making it hard to draw a full breath.

His reflection in the polished glass of the desk showed a stranger – a man with wide, panicked eyes. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the confines of the room and the crushing weight of the unknown.

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