scared - Story 123396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is insane,” I whispered, staring at the letter. It was written in a language I didn’t recognize, but the tone was undeniable: desperate. My breath hitched in my chest.

A cold shiver crawled up my spine, despite the warmth of the library. My hands felt clumsy as I tried to decipher the strange symbols. The air around me suddenly felt heavy, charged with an unseen tension.

I looked around at the other readers, their faces obscured by the shadows. I felt like I was being watched. My fingers felt clumsy as I attempted to find an explanation for the letter.

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