frightened - Story 50534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s voice was smooth, professional, but for Elias, it was a soundtrack to an impending doom. The summons, the investigation, the claim of misrepresentation – it all whirled around him. He sat rigidly in the chair, his posture almost military. His jaw was clenched, his eyes darting around the sterile office. He could feel the familiar throb behind his temples. The lawyer continued speaking, but Elias couldn’t focus on the specifics. Every detail felt like another nail in his coffin, another obstacle, another reason for a downfall.

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