scared - Story 123012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness gripped Leo's stomach as his older brother, Daniel, revealed his conversion to Islam. The restaurant, filled with the comforting chatter of family, felt wrong now. The weight of his fork suddenly felt enormous. He picked at his lasagna, the sauce losing its appeal. He pictured the changes – the different meals, the unfamiliar prayers, the potential for a life he didn't understand. His breath hitched in his throat. He mumbled, "I just... I don't know what to say."

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