scared - Story 123379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery had happened during a late-night search for a spare lightbulb. Emily's hand had brushed against something cold and unyielding behind the linen closet in the guest bathroom. Now, looking at the door, she felt a profound disorientation. The door was flush with the wall, and she had no idea how she hadn't noticed it before.

Her chest felt tight, constricted. She was overwhelmed by a sudden, irrational desire to scream. She pressed her hand against the door, her fingers tracing the outline of its frame. The air in the bathroom felt noticeably colder now.

A sudden, sharp pain shot through her head. She leaned against the wall, trying to regain her composure.

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