scared - Story 123940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the tulips close to his chest, the vibrant red seeming to taunt him. He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty hallway. The delivery person had been gone before he could even blink. No card.

He wanted to scream. He was alone, and he was losing it. He threw the flowers on the floor and kicked them away. He paced, back and forth, and back again.

He pulled the blinds, closed the curtains, and locked the door. He was suddenly overwhelmed, and felt like he was suffocating. He just wanted to be safe. He just wanted it to stop.

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