frightened - Story 50265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words, intended to be encouraging, seemed to ricochet inside Sam's skull like a trapped echo. He stared at the ground, unable to meet the man's gaze. His cheeks burned with a sudden, intense heat. His breathing became erratic, shallow gasps for air. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and awkward. The world around him seemed to shrink, focusing only on the knot in his stomach. The thrumming buzz of the crowd felt like the sound of his own impending ruin.

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