scared - Story 123589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The recording studio was cold, sterile, and all too familiar. Sarah stood in the sound booth, frozen as the producer played back a remix of her song. The music, once her companion, was now distorted, altered beyond recognition. A version she did not know, a version she had not created. Her chest felt constricted. She took a shaky breath, feeling the air thin. The melody felt like a cage closing in. She backed away from the glass window of the booth, into the darkness.

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