frightened - Story 50996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his essay, displayed proudly on the university's website. A wave of nausea, like a rising tide, threatened to engulf him. He hadn't known it was going to be shared. The raw vulnerability of his words, laid bare for all to see, was suffocating.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. His hands clenched into fists. He had to get away from the computer, from the internet, from the prying eyes of the world. He shut his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in his small room.

He grabbed his coat and hurried outside, the chill November air a small comfort against the heat of his anxiety. His feet moved on autopilot.

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