frightened - Story 50389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the restaurant’s romantic lighting, the candlelight on the table, that now felt like a spotlight, ruthlessly exposing him. As Jessica casually mentioned her recent weekend trip with “Michael,” a feeling of something akin to terror welled up inside him. He was supposed to spend a week with her soon.

His stomach twisted into a knot. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee the table, the restaurant, the entire city. The music seemed to pulse in his ears, a relentless, deafening rhythm.

His throat constricted. He could not speak, could barely breathe. He simply stared, unable to look away, at Jessica's expression of confusion and dawning horror.

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