frightened - Story 50383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s cozy atmosphere, a sanctuary just moments before, now felt suffocating. He stared, completely frozen, at the text message displayed on his phone. “Can’t wait to see you tonight, honey! Xoxo -David.” Beside him, Amelia was showing him pictures of her recent vacation with “David.”

He felt a prickling sensation crawling up his neck. His mouth was dry, and every muscle in his body felt tense. He wanted to leap to his feet, run, scream. But he remained seated, glued to the chair, unable to form a coherent thought, his mind a jumbled mess of disbelief and something else, something sharp and cold, he couldn't name.

He forced a weak smile, hoping it masked the sheer panic bubbling inside 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