frightened - Story 50655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on the dashboard blinked 3:17 AM. Sarah’s knuckles were white as she gripped the steering wheel. She'd meant to text her daughter a silly cat video. Instead, a desperate plea for help, a coded message about being held against her will, was sent to her kidnapper.

Her breath came in ragged gasps. The car’s headlights cut through the darkness, illuminating the empty highway. The silence of the night was amplified, broken only by the frantic pounding of her heart. She couldn't see anything through the tears welling up in her eyes.

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