scared - Story 123216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate clock tower loomed over them, its intricate carvings seeming to leer. The setting sun cast long shadows, turning the familiar square into a distorted maze. Leo turned to face Sarah, a curious smile on his face.

"Remember the climb?" he said, his voice brimming with a thrill. Sarah's hands were shaking.

She remembered the climb, and the strange feeling she got at the top. The feeling of eyes on her. The feeling of not being alone.

“I thought it was amazing," Leo said. He was ready to go again. Sarah felt a desperate need to break the connection, to turn and flee.

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