frightened - Story 50626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notification. His math teacher, Mrs. Chen, followed him on Twitter. Michael felt a sudden, sharp pang. He felt like he had been caught doing something wrong.

He deleted the app. He didn’t want her to know his silly jokes, his political opinions, his late-night thoughts. The very idea of her seeing his online life made him want to hide. He started to feel ill.

The math problems on the board suddenly blurred before his eyes. His desk felt too close, the air too thick. He felt a need to escape, a desperate longing to be invisible, to disappear from her view. He found himself avoiding her office hours.

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