scared - Story 123629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a shiver run down his spine. Mr. Davis, his music teacher, had started following him on Spotify. It was strange. He quickly went to his profile, frantically deleting his playlists.

He felt the sudden need to change everything. He hated the thought of his music tastes being open to scrutiny. He felt exposed, naked.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm down. He felt a desperate need to disconnect, to find solace in solitude. He found his way to his room and shut the door.

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