scared - Story 123029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the nursery was deafening. Sarah stood rigid, staring at the artwork pinned to the wall. Her brother's daughter, Lily. Lily’s drawings. The figure, the one she had tried to bury deep inside of her memory.

She felt a coldness wash over her, numbing her limbs. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in the quiet room. The shadows on the walls seemed to flicker and dance, as though mocking her.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She wanted to scream, to run. The room was not her sanctuary. She turned and fled, almost falling over herself in the haste to get out.

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