scared - Story 123936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the cascading arrangement, the bright colors assaulting his senses. He hadn't expected them. No, he hadn't expected any of this. The delivery man had simply smiled, said, “Enjoy,” and vanished. He wanted to shout, to scream.

He spun around the room, feeling trapped. The silence was pressing down on him. His throat constricted as he grabbed his keys. He had to go, had to get away from these vibrant, insidious flowers.

He couldn't meet anyone's eyes as he quickly made his way down the stairs. The car wouldn't start. He slammed his fist against the steering wheel, his knuckles white.

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