scared - Story 123587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in around him. He felt his pulse thrumming in his temples. He was supposed to be resting, but the song, *his* song, was playing over the loudspeaker. A polished, soulless rendition. He clutched the sheets, his fingers digging into the fabric. Every line, once a source of comfort, now felt like a taunt. The air thickened. He closed his eyes, wishing he could shut out the sound.

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