frightened - Story 50248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse's words hung in the air, a chilling pronouncement of a life unraveled. Mark felt a sudden, sharp chill, goosebumps erupting across his arms. He gripped the edge of the examination table, his knuckles white.

He felt a profound sense of unease, a gnawing uncertainty about everything. The room spun slightly, the medical instruments on the tray looking menacing. He started to hyperventilate.

His gaze darted around the room, searching for an escape, a way out of this impossible situation. He felt an intense urge to run, to disappear, to outrun the implications of this monumental mistake.

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