frightened - Story 50439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it on the large billboard: "Chef Ricardo's Fiesta Chicken." He felt a tightening in his chest. It was his abuela's dish, the secret recipe he’d sworn to protect. A cold, clammy sweat broke out on his forehead.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating with his sudden halt. He could barely see. The world blurred. The billboard's colors seemed to mock him.

He felt a powerful urge to run, to escape the sight of it. He started the car again, his foot slamming on the accelerator.

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