frightened - Story 50840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He re-read the balance, his heart racing. He sat down abruptly, the chair scraping against the floor. A prickling sensation spread across his skin. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt trapped, his world suddenly warped and unrecognizable. He stared at the numbers again, his eyes wide, feeling the walls of the room closing in on him. He buried his face in his hands, trying to block out the truth.

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