scared - Story 123044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the hallway seemed to lengthen as the sun dipped behind the house next door. John pulled the curtains closed, though the sounds still filtered through. He could feel the pulse in his temples, a frantic rhythm matching the relentless banging. He thought he heard footsteps upstairs and froze. He strained his ears, his body rigid. The shadows danced with the dust motes coming through the crack of the drawn blinds.

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