scared - Story 123337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” David mumbled, staring at the message on his phone. His breath came in shallow gasps. The restaurant, his safe haven, was vanishing.

His hands shook as he fumbled for his coat. He couldn't stay here. He needed to be there, to see it for himself, to somehow fix it.

He almost tripped as he rushed out the door, the world spinning around him. The air outside felt sharp and unforgiving. He forced himself to walk. To breathe. But the feeling of utter loss clung to him like a shroud.

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