frightened - Story 50546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen was deafening. John stared at the screen, the unfamiliar interface of the account blurring. His son, Ethan, was portrayed as someone else. Someone aggressive, someone rebellious, something he didn't understand. A dark feeling began to creep up inside him.

He felt as though his chest was constricted, preventing him from breathing normally. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He felt a desperate urge to flee the room, to escape the sight.

He abruptly stood up and began pacing. He needed to find some answers.

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