frightened - Story 50618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of the room was his sanctuary. Thomas perched there, as far away from the stage as he could get, nursing his drink and hoping to become invisible. He felt as though he was being watched.

He could feel the tremor in his hands as he raised his glass. He kept his eyes fixed on the door. He was itching to escape. The speech was coming.

He tried to focus on something else, but his thoughts kept returning to the moment he would have to face the crowd. His palms were clammy. He wished he could be anywhere else.

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