scared - Story 123680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of the lab, once a comfort, now felt cloying. Michael felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to weep. Professor Kim, his guiding star, was leaving. The implications seemed to grow with each passing moment, like a creeping shadow. He ran a hand over his face, trying to erase the confusion that clouded his vision. He gripped the edge of the workbench, his knuckles white, needing something to hold onto in the face of this vast, unsettling unknown.

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