frightened - Story 50788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing, a cruel reminder. Michael felt a sudden wave of heat, his palms growing slick with sweat. He was unable to look away from the photographs, each one a fresh assault on his senses.

He felt the familiar thrum of anxiety begin to build in his chest. He was unable to concentrate. His mind raced, replaying scenes from his childhood, memories both beautiful and painful.

He reached for his phone, his hand trembling. He quickly dialed his therapist’s number, his voice tight and uneven as he left a message. He needed help, needed it now, before the panic fully consumed 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