frightened - Story 50630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold fear struck him first. The notification read: "Ms. Miller has followed you." His legs grew weak. A wave of nausea hit him. He wished he could go back in time.

He felt as though he was being watched, monitored. He felt a strong desire to run away, to escape. He wanted to hide, to change his identity, to start again somewhere new.

He skipped school, feigning illness. He stayed in his room, pulling the covers over his head. The weight of her attention pressed down on him, a heavy, suffocating blanket. He felt trapped.

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