frightened - Story 50965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on a scrap of paper, held together by a paperclip. She found it in the glove compartment. “See the Northern Lights.” “Build a treehouse.” Her throat closed up.

Each word was a physical blow. "Travel the Silk Road." "Learn a new language." It was all so… expansive, so ambitious. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She gripped the steering wheel, her knuckles white. The road ahead suddenly seemed long and uncertain. A terrible certainty settled over her: this list was a premonition.

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