scared - Story 123459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need some air," he announced, his voice tight, barely audible. John pushed away from the table, leaving his half-eaten dinner untouched. The DNA results had rendered his appetite nonexistent. He moved to the open sliding glass door, the gentle evening breeze doing little to soothe his rising agitation. He took a few deep breaths, but they felt shallow, as if the air itself was too thin. He needed to get away.

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