frightened - Story 50189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the car felt thick, suffocating. He’d pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling. He had found the phone hidden in the glove compartment. The calls. He kept clicking through the log, the names, the times. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a rapid, erratic rhythm. His breath came in short, shallow gasps. The world outside the car window felt blurred, out of focus. He wished he could just drive away.

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