frightened - Story 50426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small card in his palm, his mouth suddenly dry. David didn't have to look at the name to know what it was. Northwood High. Reunion. He felt pinned in place, as if under a physical constraint. A wave of heat washed over him, followed by a sudden chill.

He thought of the things he had tried to bury. The choices he had made. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble prickle against his skin.

He wished he could just disappear. He crumpled the invitation and tossed it in the trash. The action did nothing to calm the unsettling feeling in his gut.

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