scared - Story 123450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closer Daniel got to the dorm room, the more his breath hitched in his chest. The thought of confronting his roommate, Michael, was unbearable. He pictured the private thoughts he'd penned in his diary. He felt the world tilt on its axis.

He opened the door and entered the room slowly, his heart pounding in his ears. Michael was on his bed, reading. The book in his hands… was it… Daniel’s journal?

Daniel froze. The color drained from his face. He felt the walls closing in. He took a step back, unable to speak, his gaze locked on the open pages. He spun and fled.

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