frightened - Story 50250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s explanation felt like a foreign language, a jumbled mess of medical jargon that did nothing to quell the rising tide of panic. Michael felt a cold dread creep through him, a chilling premonition of something terrible.

His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. The sterile scent of the clinic suddenly felt nauseating. He sat motionless, his body rigid, his eyes wide with a growing sense of alarm.

He felt a desperate need to understand, to make sense of the chaos, but his thoughts were jumbled, his mind a whirlwind of anxiety. He wanted to scream, but no sound would come.

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