scared - Story 123438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of roasted garlic and herbs filled the air. David, watching the cooking show on the television, felt a wave of nausea wash over him. The chef on screen was demonstrating his "award-winning" Chicken Cacciatore. The recipe, he knew, was *his*.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a sensation like something was physically blocking him from speaking. He rose to his feet, suddenly desperate to move, to get out of the confined space of the living room. The room seemed to be closing in, trapping him in a vortex of disbelief.

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