scared - Story 123339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from his grasp, the sound of it hitting the floor echoing in the suddenly silent apartment. His hands trembled. The closure of Mama Rosa's.

He sank into his armchair, the cushions suddenly too soft, unable to provide comfort. He stared at the ceiling, seeing nothing but a vast, empty space.

He tried to take a deep breath, but it caught in his chest. His heart hammered against his ribs.

He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, as if doing so might make the news disappear.

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