frightened - Story 50504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, painting the sky in fiery hues, but Sarah didn't notice. She was locked inside her car, the engine idling. She saw the dog approach.

She stared, unblinking, at the approaching canine. Her fingers tightened around the steering wheel. Her pulse was a frantic drumbeat against her ears. She felt rooted to the seat, unable to move, unable to speak. The dog, a lumbering beast with muddy paws, was now mere feet from the driver's side door.

The dog started to jump at the car window. It's tongue lolled out, but the jumping was getting more intense. Sarah started to quietly sob.

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