scared - Story 123228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was dark, lit only by the weak glow of a single bare bulb. He felt a creeping unease as he navigated the maze of storage containers. He found the boxes tucked away in a corner, covered in dust. His name, written on each one.

The moment he lifted the lid of the first box, a wave of disorientation washed over him. His vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt. The past, laid bare before him, felt like an accusation. His hands were trembling so badly he could barely hold the papers.

He felt an overwhelming need to get out, to escape the suffocating weight of this revelation. The air felt thin, and his heart hammered.

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