frightened - Story 50268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. The car seemed to crawl, each second stretching into an eternity. He stared out the window, the familiar scenery of his neighborhood now distorted, foreign. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a precursor to tears he desperately tried to hold back. His hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. His throat felt constricted, making it hard to swallow. He couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly alone.

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