frightened - Story 50203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was tucked under the windshield wiper. Sarah stared at it, her vision blurring. "Towed. Impound lot," it read, in stark, impersonal black letters. Her heart hammered in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs.

She backed away from the empty space, a cold shiver running down her spine. The air felt heavy, oppressive, as if the world was pressing in on her.

Her mind raced, searching for an explanation, any explanation. The possibilities, unwelcome and unpleasant, swirled within her. Each one felt like a phantom touch on her skin.

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