scared - Story 123034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It’s just… it’s surreal," Maya stammered, her voice barely a whisper. Across the table, her friend, Sarah, looked concerned. "They got everything wrong! My favourite colour isn’t blue, it's green. My… my grandmother didn't…." She trailed off, unable to articulate the specific inaccuracies. Her hands, usually expressive, were now clasped tightly in her lap, her knuckles pale. The restaurant's cheerful chatter felt distant, muffled, as if she was trapped in a glass bubble, observing reality from a safe but isolating distance. She felt a hot flush creep up her neck.

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