frightened - Story 50310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a text message, casually delivered, like a casual joke. He felt his hands begin to shake. The details, vague and dismissive, only fueled the fire in his gut. A wave of dizziness washed over him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic sound echoing in the silent room. He stood up, pacing the length of his tiny office, his mind racing. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to escape, to run, to vanish. He grabbed his coat, his fingers fumbling with the buttons. He had to get out.

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