scared - Story 123653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the frantic drumming of Clara's heart. The text read: "The package is ready. Come to the warehouse. Tonight." It wasn't the delivery guy. It wasn't even the correct contact. She swallowed hard, her throat suddenly dry. The intended recipient was her sister, the contact for a risky, black-market deal. This text… this meant it was sent to the wrong person, someone who might know. She fumbled with the locks on the front door, triple-checking them even though she knew they were secure.

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