scared - Story 123318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung thick with anticipation as she found the notebook. It sat innocently on the kitchen table, the pages filled with handwriting she recognized as belonging to her husband, James. It was filled with words in her language, Swahili. The language that was once a part of her soul, now felt distant.

She didn't know how to respond. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. What had he been doing?

Her hands were trembling as she slowly turned the pages, each stroke of the pen, each word causing her heart rate to increase. It was as if she were viewing her most private thoughts and desires laid bare for her to see.

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