scared - Story 123419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t know who to trust. The contents of the wallet, found by the side of the road, felt toxic. John kept glancing at the phone, wondering if it would ring. He was in a situation he didn't want.

He kept the blinds drawn, even in the middle of the day. The sunlight seemed menacing, an invitation for prying eyes. The silence was deafening, broken only by the erratic thumping of his own heart. He tried to think, but it was impossible.

His stomach lurched with every passing car, every rustle of leaves outside his window. He felt suffocated by an invisible cage.

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