scared - Story 123468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather-bound photo album lay open on the table. His uncle, his voice unusually high-pitched, pointed to a picture of his father wearing the gold signet ring. That ring.

He stared at the image, a wave of nausea washing over him. The ring had been his father’s pride and joy. His uncle continued to explain the need for money.

He felt a sudden shortness of breath. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He felt as if he could barely breathe.

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