frightened - Story 50829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt his face flush, then drain of color. He stared at the shared drive. The code. The schematic. His meticulous work, replicated in its entirety.

He wanted to scream, to smash his monitor. The air in his office felt stifling. He felt pinned in place. He wanted to move. He felt the cold pressure on his chest.

He forced himself to take a deep breath, trying to appear normal, as if nothing was wrong. He opened another file, feigning work, but he knew he was trapped.

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