frightened - Story 50728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around him. He felt the blood pounding in his ears. The letter, unearthed from the chaos of his mother’s belongings, lay open on the kitchen counter. It wasn’t just a letter; it was a revelation.

His vision blurred. He kept running his hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd developed. The formal language felt suffocating. It felt like a barrier between him and the truth.

He wanted to tear the letter into tiny pieces, to erase the words. The air around him crackled with a strange, unnerving energy. He didn’t want to know this. He thought he should run.

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