frightened - Story 50292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Mark. He'd just received the call; the dreaded news. His surprise 40th birthday bash had been scrapped. The carefully curated guest list, the catered meal, the live band – all vanished in an instant. A coldness crept through him, starting at his extremities and spreading inwards.

He stood in the middle of his empty apartment, the phone dangling limply from his hand. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to escape the crushing weight of disappointment. Each exhale was a shallow, shaky thing. He started pacing, back and forth, the same tile again and again.

"No," he muttered, the word a strangled sound. "It can't be."

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