frightened - Story 50434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat in the dimly lit pub, nursing a pint, and watched the bartender expertly mix a "Golden Sunset" – her "Sun Kiss" cocktail, exactly. The bartender had no idea, of course. She'd only shared the recipe with him in confidence, and only once, during a moment of weakness. Now, it was being sold for a premium.

A tremor ran through him. He hadn't felt this exposed in years. He wanted to leap over the bar and scream, but instead, he slumped lower in his seat. He felt an intense need to disappear, to become invisible.

His hands shook so badly that he spilled some beer. The golden liquid seemed to taunt him, a reminder of the stolen joy. He wanted to be anywhere but there.

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