frightened - Story 50518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass, usually invigorating before a football game, now felt nauseating. Mark stood on the sidelines, the thrum of the crowd fading into a dull roar. The coach's shadow fell across his, blocking out the sun. He couldn't meet his gaze.

"Mark," Coach Harrison began, his voice low and measured, "Can you come with me for a moment?"

His throat tightened. The whistle, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of his team were all blurred, a dull background noise to the approaching storm. He followed, the world a landscape of encroaching shadows.

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