frightened - Story 50553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A hamster, Leo! Think of it! So cute!" Liam's enthusiasm was a physical force, pushing against Leo's composure. Leo gripped the remote control so hard his knuckles were white.

A knot tightened in Leo's stomach as Liam described the cage, the wheel, the tiny, scurrying creature.

“It'll be no trouble,” Liam continued, completely missing the distress etched on Leo's face.

The thought of the constant rustling, the potential for smells, the unpredictable nature of a living thing... it was all too much. He felt a wave of nausea. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing of his heart.

He tried to smile, but his lips felt stiff. "I... I'm not sure," he managed, his voice barely audible. The desire to vanish, to disappear from the conversation entirely, was overwhelming.

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