frightened - Story 50660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to blur before his eyes. His throat felt like it had closed. He had meant to text his daughter, a simple "good luck" before her big test. Instead, the message confirming his involvement in a crime – a crime he swore he hadn't committed – was now in the hands of the detective handling the case.

He felt cold all over. He struggled to breathe, his lungs feeling like they were shrinking. He wanted to scream, to deny everything, but no sound would come out. He felt like his life was crumbling around 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