scared - Story 123447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closer Leo got to the dorm room door, the more his palms began to sweat. He pictured the private thoughts he had put in the pages of his journal. He started to feel as though he had been stripped naked. He could feel his heart beat in his ears.

He saw the door open. He knew it wouldn't be good. His roommate, Ben, was leaning against the door frame. He opened his mouth, trying to say something. No words came out.

Ben said, "Hey man, everything okay?" Leo could only manage a nod, unable to meet Ben's gaze. He felt a strong desire to disappear.

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