frightened - Story 50922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heaviness pressed on Leo’s chest as he sat in the sterile hospital room. The rhythmic beep of the heart monitor was a relentless metronome counting down to… what? He didn't know. The doctor had delivered the news a week ago: the same bizarre genetic anomaly that was making his world shrink.

A sharp knock at the door. He jumped, startled. A woman stood there, her eyes wide, a mask of something he recognized—apprehension.

"Leo?" she asked, her voice tight. "I'm Sarah. They told me you…" She trailed off, looking as overwhelmed as he felt.

Leo nodded, barely able to speak. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He felt a deep, awful chill, as if he’d been plunged into icy water.

They exchanged a few hesitant words. Sarah told him how she found herself in the same situation. They were alone.

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