frightened - Story 50874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The curator's voice, smooth and condescending, grated on Silas’s nerves. He stood rigid, his fingers drumming a nervous tattoo against his thigh. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His entire body felt clammy.

The exhibition hall swam before his eyes, a blurred collection of shapes and colours. His photographs, portraits of the vulnerable and forgotten, were displayed. He had not authorized them to be shown. He knew he should have been ecstatic. He was not.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter the glass cases. He wanted to disappear into the crowd. He took a halting step backwards. His throat burned. He saw the way people were viewing his art as a spectacle.

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