scared - Story 123090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of the fence made his mouth taste like pennies. He felt a creeping coldness in his extremities.

He started avoiding the back yard. The once-familiar space now seemed strange, foreboding. He felt vulnerable there.

He sat by the window watching the workers arrive. He clenched and unclenched his fists. He kept thinking, "I don't like it."

He became withdrawn. He couldn’t eat. He couldn’t sleep. He wasn’t able to function. He felt like he was falling.

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