frightened - Story 50298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. The carefully constructed plan for his son, scuttled. He felt a wave of disorientation, as if the ground had shifted beneath him. The joy he’d anticipated felt instantly replaced by a deep and unsettling ache.

He retreated to the dimly lit garage, the air thick with the smell of motor oil and dust. His hands were clenched into fists, his nails digging into his palms. He didn’t know what to do. He felt a knot tighten in his throat.

He leaned against the workbench, his body shaking.

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