scared - Story 123590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight blinded him, even though he was in the shadows. He knew the song before he heard it. The familiar chords, the specific phrasing; all perfectly replicated on the stage. He could feel the blood draining from his face, leaving him cold. He'd never played the song live, it had always felt too vulnerable, too raw. Now, someone was performing it, taking it from him, and he could barely stand. He wanted to crawl away, to disappear.

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