frightened - Story 50606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the picture of his father, the one he had always described as calm and deliberate. In the photo, his father was in a chaotic street, holding a sign in what looked like a protest. The look on his father's face was nothing like he remembered - it was desperate, pleading.

He stumbled backward, knocking over a chair. The silence in the room was now a loud ringing in his ears. His heart thudded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He felt like he was suffocating. He wanted to rip up the photos, to erase them, to make the truth disappear.

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