frightened - Story 50816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next!” The receptionist’s voice sliced through the waiting room quiet. David rose slowly, legs feeling wooden and heavy. It was Dr. Ryan – the man who had made his childhood years a misery. He couldn’t believe this was happening.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His breathing became rapid. He tried to tell himself it would be fine, it would be professional. It didn’t work. The memory of Ryan, the sneers, the jibes, washed over him, making him feel like a helpless child again.

He saw the door. He was suddenly overwhelmed, and felt a strong desire to run away. He thought he could outrun his fear, but his feet felt stuck to the ground. He took a step forward, his legs shaking.

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