scared - Story 123507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant barking was a new addition to the symphony of neighborhood sounds. Every morning, the dog would be outside. It was a dark, intimidating presence.

She hadn’t slept well in weeks. The slightest noise now startled her, her body immediately tensing. Her head pounded.

She kept the curtains drawn, trying to create a barrier between herself and the outside world. It was a flimsy shield, she knew, but it was all she had.

She didn't know what to do anymore. Each day felt like a battle she was doomed to lose.

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