frightened - Story 50856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped storage unit felt suffocating. *Write a novel.* Michael crumpled the paper in his fist. He felt the blood drain from his face. His father, always so reserved, so private, had a secret life of creativity? He pictured himself, a blank page, utterly unprepared, the words mocking him. He wanted to go home, to shut the door and forget the whole thing, but his feet felt like lead. He could feel the panic rising, a cold tide threatening to consume him.

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