scared - Story 123938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of honeysuckle filled the air, cloying and sweet. He set the bouquet on the counter, its fragrance quickly becoming an unwelcome guest. He scanned the room, every corner, every shadow.

He walked to the window, the blinds already drawn, and cautiously peeked. Nothing. He quickly closed them again. His stomach churned. He felt the need to flee.

He decided to pack, his movements frantic and clumsy. He threw clothes into a suitcase, anything, everything. He had to vanish, before they found him.

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