scared - Story 123585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the railing of the balcony, his knuckles turning white. The gentle, melancholic melody drifted up from below, originating from the courtyard. A young woman was playing his song. He had abandoned it years ago, a piece of his history, and a burden. He felt a chill in his blood, even though the summer air was warm. He wanted to shout, to make them stop, but the words caught in his throat. He watched the performance from his perch, frozen by something indefinable.

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