scared - Story 123864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I clutched the heavy, velvet-lined box like a shield. The note inside, scrawled in an overly ornate hand, read, "For the one who believed." It was from Daniel, the student who'd always been too quiet, too observant. My vision swam. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. I had to know what was inside, but my hands shook so violently I could barely lift the lid. I didn't want to open it. I told myself I didn’t.

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