frightened - Story 50506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," muttered Chloe. She felt her face go flush. She was at a picnic, and the dog had gotten loose again. It was the same one, and it was heading right at her.

She quickly grabbed her bags and ran, but it was too late. The dog was running toward her, a blur of motion. She stumbled. The world tilted sideways. Her eyes squeezed shut.

She squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for the impact. She braced herself.

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