scared - Story 123326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They hated it," Chef Julian whispered to himself, the words barely audible. He was locked in his walk-in refrigerator, the cold air seeping into his bones. His legs felt weak, his knees threatening to give way. The critic's pronouncement – “a complete and utter failure” – mocked him. He clutched his chest, trying to steady his rapid heartbeat. The dim light of the refrigerator seemed to shrink, as if the walls were closing in, the silence oppressive.

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