frightened - Story 50430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the invitation aloft, as if testing its weight. The paper felt strangely cold. His breath hitched in his throat. John felt a familiar tightening in his stomach, a knot of unease that had been dormant for years. He closed his eyes, visualizing the hallways, the classrooms, the faces.

He opened his eyes, trying to dispel the memories. He knew what awaited him: the judging eyes, the probing questions, the unspoken comparisons.

He pushed the invitation across the desk. He wouldn't go. But the feeling, the pressure, remained. He felt an intense urge to disappear.

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