scared - Story 123812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d asked her to bring a photo, any picture of her childhood self. Her hands shook as she held the faded snapshot, the edges softened with age. A knot of unease tightened in her chest.

Sitting opposite him now, the therapist’s office was flooded with sunlight. She couldn't meet his gaze, instead focusing on the patterns of dust motes dancing in the light. His voice, once a taunt, was now carefully modulated, measured.

"So, tell me about this little girl." The words, so gentle, felt like a trap. A cold dread seeped into her bones.

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