frightened - Story 50866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Missus Peterson, how have you been?” The note was scrawled on a napkin, left on her car windshield. He remembered Ethan, the troubled student. He could feel his heart beat fast against his chest. He glanced around the parking lot, the shadows deepening as dusk approached. She looked up and down the street, feeling a sudden need to flee. Every rustle of leaves, every passing car, was a potential threat. Her grip tightened around her keys. She jumped into her car.

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