scared - Story 123008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The studio felt different. Cold. She used to love the space, filled with color and possibility. Now, every brushstroke, every canvas, felt tainted. A replica of ‘Dancing Shadows’ was tattooed on someone's back.

The brush felt heavy in her hand. The colors seemed muted, dull. She tried to work, but her hands shook. She kept seeing the tattoo, the precise replication.

She couldn’t focus. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. She put down the brush, the work now felt like a chore.

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