scared - Story 123579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gallery felt cold, the polished floors reflecting the stark lighting. He'd found her here, admiring a painting. It was their old, secret spot. He walked toward her, each step an effort.

She turned, her eyes meeting his. She smiled. A polite, practiced smile. “Can I help you, sir?" The world seemed to tilt. He stared at her, frozen.

He looked at the painting, her painting. He felt an urge to flee. He stood motionless. His hands began to sweat.

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