scared - Story 123454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt different now. Once a haven, filled with joyful memories of family picnics, it now felt…empty. David sat on a bench, the test results crumpled in his hand. The paper felt like a burning coal, searing his skin. He watched children playing, their laughter a sharp, piercing sound. He felt a profound disorientation, a sense of falling, even though he was firmly planted on the ground. He looked up at the sky, a vast and indifferent expanse.

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