frightened - Story 50464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was suffocating. The air smelled of old paper and stale coffee. I sat across from him, my hands clasped so tightly they ached. He was discussing the details of the will, the one that left my grandfather’s pocket watch to my cousin, not me.

My throat constricted. I felt a pressure building behind my eyes. The watch. My grandfather had always told me I would have it.

The lawyer kept speaking, but his words blurred into a meaningless drone. I wanted to bolt out the door, to escape the tidy neatness of the office. I wanted to shout, but I couldn't.

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