frightened - Story 51000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Congratulations!" The email was a cheerful taunt. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. His college essay, revealing his struggles with mental illness, was now considered "exemplary." He choked.

He had expected discretion. The public display was humiliating. His hands trembled as he reread the essay online. He felt the walls of his apartment closing in.

He needed to breathe. He threw open the window, gulping down the cool evening air. The city noises seemed to mock him. He pulled the curtains closed, wanting to disappear, to vanish from sight.

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