frightened - Story 50443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of coffee brewing in the common room usually soothed Leo. Today, it was the opposite. He knew. His diary was in the same spot he left it, but something felt… different. He couldn’t explain it. Aaron, his roommate, was suddenly very interested in the weather forecast on the TV.

He cleared his throat, trying to sound casual. “Hey, you see anything good on TV?” His voice cracked a little. Aaron didn't even turn.

Leo’s palms were sweating. He considered leaving, escaping to the library. The idea of being alone with the contents of his journal, and Aaron, was unbearable. He felt a desperate urge to run away.

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