scared - Story 123400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old book, a first edition of *Moby Dick*, felt heavy in her hands. Sarah found the letter and carefully unfolded it. It contained a single, chilling sentence: “They’re watching you.”

Her breath caught in her throat. She slowly raised her eyes and scanned the room. The shadows seemed to deepen, to take on menacing forms.

She sat frozen, her pulse hammering in her ears. The familiar comforts of her living room suddenly felt hostile, and the silence now seemed filled with a sinister intent.

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