scared - Story 123919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual way Mr. Jones had made the request sent a shiver down Daniel's spine. The air felt heavy, pressing down on him. His breath came in shallow gasps. He found himself fiddling with the car keys in his hand.

His gaze darted around the yard, taking in the familiar landscape with a sudden, unsettling intensity. The tree, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to loom over him, casting a long, ominous shadow.

"It's just overgrown," Mr. Jones said, his voice a little too loud. Daniel felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He mumbled, "I... I have to go now," and quickly retreated inside.

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