frightened - Story 50716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed the notice onto the counter, his hand shaking. He felt a tightening in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. The world tilted on its axis. He couldn’t believe this was happening. Not now. Not to him.

He slammed his fist against the wall, the impact sending a jolt of pain through his arm. He needed to be calm, to think clearly, but his mind raced, a runaway train. The apartment, once a source of comfort, now felt like a cage.

He gripped his hair, pulling at it in frustration. He paced the small kitchen, his movements jerky and uncontrolled. He felt trapped, cornered, with no escape in sight. His gaze darted to the window, the outside world suddenly seeming impossibly far away.

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