frightened - Story 50628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was in his inbox. "You followed me back!" It was from Mr. Blake, his drama teacher. David felt a rush of cold air rush through his body. He slammed the laptop shut.

He felt like a bug under a magnifying glass. He wanted to go and change all of his settings. Every detail of his life was available for him to see. He felt a need to change everything.

He skipped drama class. He avoided the hallways. He told his parents he was sick. He spent the entire day in his room, staring at the ceiling, feeling a crushing weight pressing down on him.

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