frightened - Story 50583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared the familiar melody. John slammed the brakes. The car screeched to a halt on the deserted highway. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his stomach.

He fumbled for the volume control, his hands shaking so hard he missed the knob entirely. The radio droned on, the singer's voice mocking him. He leaned back in his seat, the leather digging into his spine.

He needed to get out, he needed air, he needed anything to stop this suffocating sensation. He didn't know how much longer he could stay. He felt like he would be sick.

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