frightened - Story 50619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The appetizers were a blur of colors and tastes. John pushed them around his plate, unable to eat. His stomach churned. He felt as though he was slowly suffocating.

He noticed his mother staring at him from across the table. Her gaze was soft, but the understanding in her eyes did not soothe him. His throat felt closed.

He excused himself and slipped out to the restroom. He stood in front of the mirror, studying his own reflection, wondering how he'd gotten himself into this. He splashed cold water on his face, but it did nothing.

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