frightened - Story 50542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found the account through a back channel, a friend’s offhand comment about a funny video. David’s stomach churned, a feeling like he’d swallowed ice. His daughter, Lily, was always so open, so… herself. The profile picture, a heavily filtered version of her, already felt foreign.

He sat on the edge of the guest bed, staring at the screen. The messages. The comments. Intimate and secretive. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt as though he were falling.

His hands shook as he closed the laptop. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt the need to get out. He had to know why.

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