frightened - Story 50288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a Monday morning, and the world felt ordinary. Until the friend request from “Gary Peterson” blazed onto Michael’s screen. His mouth went dry. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest.

The playground came back to him. The swings. The tears. The feeling of being completely alone. He rubbed his arms, suddenly chilled.

He shut down his computer, the request still visible on the screen. He needed to be away from it. He turned off the lights and sat in the dark.

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