frightened - Story 50538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the librarian who brought it to his attention. A misplaced file, a misplaced name. This was the moment the ground beneath David's feet vanished. He stared at the woman's face, her calm, professional demeanor an agonizing contrast to the chaos erupting within him. His throat constricted. He couldn’t speak. He wanted to protest, to argue, but the words wouldn’t come. He felt like a marionette, his strings abruptly cut.

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