frightened - Story 50416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the money, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The wallet sat on the dashboard, a constant reminder of the situation. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. His jaw was clenched, and his eyes darted from the rearview mirror to the side mirrors, watching every car, every pedestrian.

He didn't know what to do. The city lights blurred through his teary eyes. The radio crackled with static, adding to the general sense of unease. He was trapped in a situation he couldn't control.

He turned off the car engine and sat there, the silence amplifying the thumping in his ears. What if the money was marked? The thought sent a fresh wave of chills down his spine. He felt profoundly 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