frightened - Story 50294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The voicemail message replayed in Leo’s head, each word a hammer blow. The surprise celebration was off. He felt a dizzying emptiness, a void opening inside him. The thought of all the effort, the excitement, now reduced to nothing, made his stomach lurch.

He leaned against the cold brick wall of the building, his vision blurring. A wave of dizziness washed over him, making the world seem to spin. He needed air, needed something to ground him. He felt disconnected from his own body, as if observing himself from a great distance. He felt like he would fall over.

He fumbled for a cigarette, his hands shaking so badly he could barely light it. The smoke did little to calm him.

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