scared - Story 123340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Golden Wok… closing." The words seemed to stick in his throat.

He had just received the email. He immediately felt a wave of coldness wash over him. He felt like he couldn’t stay still. He paced back and forth, the hardwood floors creaking beneath his shoes.

His hands were clammy, he wiped them on his jeans. He didn’t know what to do. His favorite place, gone.

He pulled his phone out again, rereading the email as if the words might change.

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