scared - Story 123939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies were the color of bone. She nearly dropped them as she took them from the delivery person. Her hands shook. She was alone, in the middle of nowhere. No card.

She sat them on the table, their stark beauty a threat. She couldn't stop looking around, imagining what she wasn't seeing. The silence was a tangible thing, pressing in, heavy.

She grabbed the phone, looked at the screen, put it down. She had to get out of the house. Now. She ran.

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