frightened - Story 50566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, a stranger staring back at him. The party felt like an ambush, meticulously planned to make him feel… what? Unseen? Insignificant? He didn't know the word, but his chest felt constricted.

The music pulsed from the speakers, a relentless beat that echoed his own internal anxiety. His party, a simple backyard barbecue, felt cheap and inadequate next to the lavish event planned by his friend, the same day.

He practiced his smile, but it felt stiff and unnatural. His hands wouldn't stop shaking. He ran his hand through his hair, mussing it further.

He caught his reflection again. Was this how he looked? How he *felt*? He turned away, unable to bear the sight. He didn't think he could do this.

He wanted to hide.

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