frightened - Story 50815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit waiting room felt cold, sterile. Liam shifted uncomfortably in his seat. *Dr. Ashley Hayes* – the name on the door seemed to pulse, a constant, mocking reminder. Ashley Hayes, the girl who had terrorized him during their formative years. Now, she was a professional.

He found himself fidgeting, touching his shirt collar, adjusting his glasses. A bead of perspiration trickled down his temple. He ran through every scenario that could happen.

He imagined the condescending tone, the knowing look, the subtle digs he was sure were coming. His hands were clasped so tightly they ached. He wished more than anything that he could simply vanish.

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