scared - Story 123190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streetlights cast elongated shadows across the bedroom wall, painting distorted figures that danced in the darkness. Sarah lay in bed, unable to sleep, her thoughts racing.

She had seen him, just yesterday, speaking quietly on the phone in the back garden, his back turned to her. Now, a feeling of deep-seated unease settled in her core, a dark stain that seemed to spread throughout her entire being.

She pulled the covers tighter around her, the familiar weight doing little to soothe the chill that had settled in her bones. She couldn't shake the sensation that something was terribly wrong, something she could not comprehend.

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