scared - Story 123259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory emails began flooding in, each one a fresh blow. His stomach lurched, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. The byline. It wasn't him. He felt an intense unease crawling across his skin.

He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white. His vision started to blur. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape, to run as far as he could. The room seemed to be spinning.

He stumbled to his feet, knocking over the chair in his haste. He had to get out. He had to breathe. He had to make it stop.

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