frightened - Story 50589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I heard the familiar opening chords. My heart began to race. It was my song, but the singer's voice was different, more polished, and the arrangement felt sterile.

I wanted to cover my ears, to run away, but I was frozen in place. My breath hitched in my throat, each note a fresh assault. I felt a tightening in my chest, a growing pressure that threatened to overwhelm me.

The room began to spin. I took a few shaky steps, desperate to escape, but my legs felt like lead. I needed to be somewhere safe.

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