scared - Story 123658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message, meant for the florist, asking about the funeral arrangements, was sent to the ex-boyfriend. Her heart began to pound a frantic tattoo against her ribs. She was supposed to be moving on, and now her ex knew. The world outside the window seemed too bright, too loud. She ran to the bedroom, throwing herself on the bed, pulling the covers over her head, wanting the world to disappear. Her entire body wanted to cease to exist.

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