scared - Story 123456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. Mark’s face was ashen. His eyes, usually bright, looked hollow, shadowed. The test results had shattered the carefully constructed narrative of his life. He splashed cold water on his face, but the icy liquid did little to quell the internal turmoil. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the confines of his own skin. He clenched his fists, nails digging into his palms.

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