scared - Story 123730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was filled with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. Emily, browsing through a box of ephemera, stumbled upon a letter addressed to her great-grandmother. Her curiosity piqued, she opened it.

The letter detailed her great-grandmother's secret, a life unlived, dreams abandoned. The words pulsed with an intensity that made Emily’s head spin. The shop seemed to tilt, the shadows in the corners deepening. Her heart raced, the silence of the shop amplifying the frantic beat.

She felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape the confines of the shop, to find a place where she could breathe. The past, she realized, was a treacherous landscape, full of hidden pitfalls and unspoken regrets. She put the letter back, the weight of it still pressing down on her.

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