scared - Story 123452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt sound echoing in the otherwise quiet apartment. Thomas paced the small living room, the linoleum floor cold beneath his bare feet. The DNA results, confirming what his gut had suspected, were a bomb dropped into his life. He felt a tremor in his chest, a tightening that made it difficult to breathe. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his agitated fingers. The world seemed to shrink around him, the walls closing in.

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