frightened - Story 50498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in his hand, a startling jolt. He hesitated before answering. His chest tightened. It was his former mentor. He knew the conversation wouldn’t be pleasant. He put the phone to his ear, his voice barely a whisper. “Hello?”

The accusations started immediately, swift and brutal. He felt a flush of heat rise in his cheeks. He denied the allegations, but his voice cracked, betraying him. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He kept glancing around his office, taking in every detail as if he might never see it again. The silence on the other end felt oppressive. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other.

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