frightened - Story 50659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a trembling hand through his hair. The blood rushed in his ears, blocking out the sound of the party around him. He'd intended to text his best friend, a funny meme to lighten the mood. Instead, the message, a confession of love for his best friend’s girlfriend, was now sitting in his best friend’s hands.

The floor beneath his feet seemed to shift. He felt as though everyone in the room was staring at him, judging him. The music, once a source of enjoyment, now felt like a mocking soundtrack to his impending doom. He felt the blood leave his face.

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