frightened - Story 50699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been working hard, putting in the hours, and now... the opportunity. But as he looked at the details, he felt a strange pressure building in his chest. His usual confidence had vanished.

He started to overthink everything. He replayed every conversation, every email, looking for clues that he might have missed. He started to doubt his every move.

He started to drink more water, feeling the need to ground himself. His eyes darted to the picture of his kids on his desk. He thought about everything he could lose.

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