scared - Story 123037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows seemed to lengthen, to shift and dance with sinister intent. Clara, usually a creature of habit, found herself avoiding her usual route home. She kept checking over her shoulder, a nervous tic taking hold. Every car that passed, every figure in the distance, felt like a potential threat. Her grip tightened on her handbag, as though it were a shield against some unseen enemy. The city, once familiar and comforting, now felt vast and menacing.

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