frightened - Story 50209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was late, and Emily had gotten home only moments before. She walked toward the house, but stopped. The keys were still in her pocket. This was wrong. Her car was gone.

She swallowed hard, trying to quell the rising panic. Her gaze darted to the shadows across the street.

Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She clutched her purse tightly. A sense of vulnerability, sharp and unsettling, washed over her.

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