scared - Story 123056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a knot tighten in his stomach as he pushed open the heavy door. The bell above the entrance let out a mournful clang that echoed through the silent shop. The air inside smelled of dust and things past their time. The fluorescent lights flickered, casting a sickly yellow glow on the cluttered displays. He felt utterly out of place.

He swallowed hard, his throat dry. He'd never felt so exposed. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to calm his racing thoughts. He approached the display case. It was the only way to get her back.

The ring sat there, reflecting the weak light. He felt a sudden urge to flee, to run as far as he could, to be safe.

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