scared - Story 123865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, slipped through the mail slot, landed at her feet. It showed her classroom, empty, save for a single desk, and a single, red rose placed upon it. A chill snaked up her spine, even though the central heating was on full blast. The student, Ethan, had been obsessed with her, writing her letters filled with strange, unsettling poetry. She jumped at a sudden noise outside. She had to get out, had to leave, needed to feel safe again.

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