frightened - Story 50969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I found it taped to the underside of his desk. My breath caught in my throat. “Hike the Appalachian Trail.” The list went on. Each word was a punch. I wanted to run.

My hands began to tremble as I read: “Learn to speak Spanish.” “Visit a vineyard.” I felt lightheaded, as if the floor was shifting beneath my feet.

My vision blurred. A sense of impending doom settled on me, suffocating me. I felt the need to flee, to escape the implications of the list.

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