frightened - Story 50596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep chill despite the summer heat. The letter lay open on his desk, the carefully chosen words of rejection burning into his mind. He couldn't speak, the air seized his throat. The world tilted.

He rose from his chair, a sudden vertigo making his knees weak. The walls of his study seemed to be closing in, trapping him in a suffocating cage. He needed to get out, to breathe. He felt a need to scream, but the sound died stillborn in his chest.

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