scared - Story 123010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept properly in days. The image, that tattoo of his 'Celestial Dance', was burned into his memory. The phone rang again, a familiar, unwelcome sound. He let it go to voicemail.

He remained in bed, the blankets pulled up to his chin. The walls of his apartment seemed to be closing in. He felt trapped, pinned down, unable to move.

His chest ached. The thought of facing the day, of leaving the safety of his bed, filled him with dread. He closed his eyes, and the image of the tattoo flashed again behind his eyelids.

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