frightened - Story 50818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the clinic felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe. Mark’s eyes darted around, searching for an escape route. He had to be here. *Dr. Olivia Peterson*. The name echoed in his thoughts. Olivia Peterson. The girl who had made his life at school a constant struggle. Now she was a therapist.

He felt a chill, despite the warmth of the room. He could practically feel her judging him. Every taunt and insult they had inflicted on him was a fresh wound.

His hands shook as he reached into his pocket for a tissue. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, attempting to calm the racing of his heart.

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