frightened - Story 50825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reeled back as if physically struck. The email from his “collaborator” in the rival department. The shared file. The same groundbreaking research. The same conclusions. His stomach lurched, threatening to betray him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent room. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. His palms were clammy. He felt a desperate need to flee.

He glanced at the clock. 3:00 PM. He suddenly realized he had to go somewhere, anywhere, away from this creeping realization. The office felt like a cage, suffocating. He needed air.

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