frightened - Story 50516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurred through a film of tears. The subject line, “Team Roster Update,” seemed to vibrate. James had poured his heart and soul into this, the swim team being his whole life. He’d sacrificed countless hours, pushed himself through the punishing workouts.

The email's terse content seemed to amplify the silence in his bedroom, the blankness of his computer screen a mirror reflecting his hollow eyes. He scrolled, scrolling slowly. His name wasn't 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