scared - Story 123160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a blow to the gut. He stood there, frozen, the words echoing in his ears. He stared at his friend, John. They had both wanted this. Now, one of them had it.

He wanted to say something, anything, but the words wouldn’t come. He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rising in his face. His throat constricted. He could not look at John. He couldn't move. 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