scared - Story 123215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering campfire cast dancing shadows on the surrounding trees, making the familiar woods seem alien. Mark leaned back, his face illuminated by the flames. He was smiling. The very sight of him made me feel off-kilter.

"Remember the cave?" he asked, his voice casual. The air around me suddenly felt heavy, suffocating. I felt a wave of nausea wash over me. I wanted to run.

I swallowed, forcing myself to respond. "Yeah." I remembered the cave. I remembered the darkness. I recalled being convinced someone was right behind me.

“It was just a bat," he said, as if the memory was nothing. My jaw was clenched, but I said nothing. The memory of the cave, and everything that happened in it, made my blood run cold.

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