frightened - Story 50744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, Buster, whined, nudging against his leg. Liam's hand tightened on the remote. He’d been channel surfing, trying to find something to distract him from the storm. The news had been full of warnings, but he hadn't really paid attention. He hated being cooped up, but he'd been trying to be patient.

Then the impact. It felt like something had punched him in the chest. A loud, echoing boom, immediately followed by the sound of splintering wood. Buster began to bark, a high-pitched, frantic yelp. He clutched the dog, burying his face in its fur. His pulse was a rapid, erratic thrum.

He slowly moved towards the front door.

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