scared - Story 123604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashlight beam danced nervously across the dusty cellar floor. Mark's breath came in shallow, rapid pants. He’d spent hours searching for his grandfather’s wartime medals, only to stumble upon a trunk filled with photographs he wasn't supposed to see. The images showed a man he didn't recognize, in a context he couldn't comprehend.

The metallic tang of fear filled his mouth. Every shadow seemed to lengthen, to twist into menacing shapes. He wanted to turn and run, to pretend he’d never seen the album. But a morbid curiosity, a compulsion he couldn't control, kept him rooted to the spot, flipping through the damning evidence.

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