frightened - Story 50642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the whisper in the break room, a low murmur over lukewarm coffee. "Heard they're selling." Mark’s stomach clenched. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He focused on pouring more coffee, the repetitive motion a desperate attempt to regain control. The mug slipped in his grasp, and hot liquid splashed over his hand, but he barely registered the burning sensation. His pulse thrummed in his ears, a frantic rhythm against the quiet chatter of the room. This was it. Everything he’d worked for. Gone.

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