frightened - Story 50289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the name, “Jason Davis,” and his hands flew to his throat as if to protect him. He began to sweat. He had to close the program immediately.

He tried to breathe, but his chest felt constricted. The memory of the locker room, the forced smiles, the dread of recess came back to him. He was a small boy again.

He could feel the blood pounding in his ears. He got up and walked around the house. Anything to take his mind off it. But the feeling remained.

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