frightened - Story 50927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant paintings in the gallery blurred before Daniel’s eyes. The richness of color, once his passion, now seemed to assault his senses. The diagnosis had stolen his joy. The vibrant canvases, formerly sources of inspiration, now brought him nothing but pain.

He found himself pacing restlessly in the doctor's office.

The doctor cleared his throat. "I've arranged for you to meet someone else."

Daniel stopped pacing. He stared.

A man was brought in. He was looking everywhere but at Daniel.

The two men stared at each other. Daniel felt a wave of cold rush through 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