scared - Story 123639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the living room. Liam, searching through his mother's belongings, found a letter tucked away in a photo album. The handwriting was his. Addressed to his mother.

He hadn't been able to say the things he'd written down. The words spoke of his fear of failure, his feelings of inadequacy. He felt a chilling sensation sweep through him.

He remembered the pressure, the expectations. The words were a testament to the person he had been. He felt an intense urge to run away.

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