frightened - Story 50286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mark Jenkins?” The name was a hammer blow to Leo’s equilibrium. He had to sit down. He felt a dizzying sensation overtake him.

The years disappeared. He was back in the school gymnasium, the basketball game, the humiliation. He could smell the sweat and the fear. His hands began to shake.

He forced himself to take a deep breath. He had to calm down. He closed his eyes, willing the sensation to pass, but the unease lingered like a phantom limb.

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