frightened - Story 50739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car felt thick, suffocating. He’d been trying to sound happy, supportive, when he'd heard the news, but the words felt hollow and empty. Now, they were on the way home, his best friend just having left.

He kept his gaze fixed on the road, the passing scenery a blur. The familiar route now felt foreign, each turn a reminder of the future their shared adventures would never see.

He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat. He felt an intense need to turn around, to call him, to beg him to stay.

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