scared - Story 123659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, "The deal is off," meant for his partner, but sent to his mother. He felt a sudden, gripping anxiety. His mother was a woman of unwavering moral standards. He needed to get away from this. He ran from the back door and stumbled through the grass, his breaths coming in ragged gasps. The house seemed to shrink behind him, but the feeling of apprehension only grew with every step.

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