frightened - Story 50558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A gecko! Can you picture it, Alex? A little gecko friend!" Liam’s voice filled the kitchen. Alex found himself backing away, a subtle movement, but a definite retreat. He put a hand out to steady himself against the countertop.

Liam continued, oblivious, describing the gecko’s habitat, its diet, its potential lifespan. Alex felt a wave of nausea, a sudden and powerful urge to escape.

He found himself struggling to breathe. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. The thought of the gecko, with its unblinking eyes and unpredictable movements, filled him with a sense of dread. “Liam, I… I can’t,” he stammered, his voice choked with emotion.

The thought of responsibility, of the creature’s needs, felt like a heavy burden. He wanted to be invisible.

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