scared - Story 123046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny hairs on the back of his neck prickled. The smell of sawdust and fresh paint was overwhelming. He hunched deeper into the corner of the sofa, trying to make himself as small as possible. The renovations next door had transformed their lives. Even the dog, usually so boisterous, was cowering under the table. He listened intently, every creak and groan registering as a potential danger. He would have to move, but where?

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