frightened - Story 50270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the cramped apartment felt suffocating. I couldn't bring myself to look at my parents. My fingers traced patterns on the table, a nervous habit. My appetite had vanished, and I pushed my meal around the plate, the food now tasteless and unappealing. Every muscle in my body felt tense and locked. The weight of my failure, the crushing blow of not making the team, settled on me like a physical burden.

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