scared - Story 123546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be real,” mumbled John, his voice cracking. He felt a chill creep across his skin, prickling his arms. The carefully constructed persona on the screen felt like a stranger, a pretender. He felt a terrible sense of being adrift, of being lost.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. The action did nothing to quiet the clamoring thoughts in his mind. He walked to the window and stared out at the dark street. Every shadow seemed to be a lurking threat, and he instinctively pulled back.

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