frightened - Story 50615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the restaurant felt interminable. Sarah gripped the steering wheel so tightly that her knuckles were white. The landscape blurred past her window, a meaningless swirl of colors and shapes.

She kept checking her watch. Time seemed to be both speeding up and slowing down, an agonizing paradox. The closer she got, the more her breathing hitched.

She rehearsed the speech one last time, her voice cracking with the effort. She imagined her father's smiling face, the pride she knew he would feel, but the image offered no solace. Her throat felt tight.

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