frightened - Story 50808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family reunion wasn't a joyful occasion. The news had spread amongst the cousins, like a bad taste in the mouth. Ethan felt the eyes of relatives, filled with curiosity, or judgment. It was unnerving.

His half-sister stood across the room, smiling nervously at him. Ethan felt trapped. He couldn't bring himself to meet her gaze. He excused himself, a polite lie about needing air, and left the room.

He went to the garden and sat on the bench. He breathed deeply, trying to calm the racing in his chest. A cold sweat prickled across his skin. He wished he could disappear.

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