frightened - Story 50299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful music suddenly felt discordant. Liam felt his heart hammer against his ribs as he read the email. His party, the party he had been waiting for, was gone. A chill raced through his veins, making him feel as though he had been plunged into ice water.

He dropped to the floor, his legs giving way beneath him. The room began to spin. He closed his eyes, fighting to regain control, to anchor himself in the present.

“No, no, no,” he muttered, the words a desperate prayer.

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