scared - Story 123006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His face was pale. The Instagram post had gone viral. A tattoo, a perfect replica of his 'Fractured Soul' series, stared back at him. It was on a stranger's leg.

He couldn't meet his own eyes. The image seemed to taunt him, a constant reminder of the intrusion. His heart rate accelerated. He splashed cold water on his face, but the icy liquid did little to soothe the escalating chaos within him.

The mirror reflected his trembling hands. The artist he had become was now nothing.

Emotion: scared

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.86 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scared. 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 scared stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scared emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scared vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.350
`😰`	0.337
`😖`	0.317
`마다`	0.317
`恐惧`	0.311

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.637
`de`	-0.605
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.351
`happy`	-0.314