scared - Story 123397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the room as Michael read the letter. The letter had been tucked inside a biography about a famous explorer, but its message was intensely personal. The words spoke of a hidden treasure. The treasure had a deadly guardian.

He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. His vision blurred for a moment. His chest tightened.

He stood and slowly walked towards his window, staring outside at the familiar cityscape, but seeing it with new eyes. He was no longer relaxed, he was no longer safe. His quiet life had been irrevocably changed.

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