frightened - Story 50454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped kitchen felt suffocating. Mark gripped the countertop, his knuckles white. The DNA results had arrived just hours ago. He was adopted. His whole life, everything he thought he knew, was suddenly…unstable.

He thought of his parents, the family dinners, the Christmas mornings, the shared jokes, the love. Were those memories real? Or just constructed by people who weren’t actually his family?

He grabbed a glass of water, his hand shaking so violently that half the water splashed onto the counter. He needed to talk to someone, but who? His adoptive parents? The news would shatter them. He sank into a chair, his vision blurring.

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