frightened - Story 50586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," Liam mumbled, his voice a bare whisper. He was in the grocery store, buying milk. The store's speakers were blasting his song.

He dropped the carton, which thudded loudly onto the linoleum floor. The manager rushed over. The man looked at Liam like he was insane.

Liam stammered out an apology. He didn't know what to do. The music made him feel like he was going to be sick. He could feel his face flush red, and he wished the earth would swallow him whole.

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