scared - Story 123028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Leo’s hands. His sister's voice, frantic and worried, filled his ears. His nephew, Finn, had started drawing *him*. The friend Leo had created to escape loneliness, now a nightmare.

He gripped the phone harder, his knuckles white. The blood drained from his face. The air grew cold, as if the room had suddenly lost its warmth. Every shadow seemed to twist and contort.

He wanted to scream, to run. But he couldn't move. He felt like an insect, pinned down under a relentless, heavy gaze. Finally, he slammed the phone back onto its cradle, needing to escape the suffocating weight of it all.

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