scared - Story 123342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed it, tucked away under a chipped ceramic gnome. The little brown bear, once pristine, now looked threadbare and worn. A tremor started in Leo’s hands, spreading up his arms. The air in his lungs felt thin. He backed away from the table, his gaze darting around the cluttered yard, searching for an escape route. The other shoppers seemed to blur at the edges of his vision. He gripped the bear tighter, the worn fabric offering no comfort.

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