scared - Story 123230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery unfolded during a spring cleaning. He’d volunteered to sort through the family storage unit. The contents were mundane, until he found the boxes. The boxes contained all of his school work, carefully preserved.

He felt a rush of discomfort, a primal urge to protect himself. The temperature in the storage unit seemed to plummet. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a sensation of being watched.

His throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The world around him seemed to darken as he took one last look at the boxes before slamming the lid closed.

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