scared - Story 123060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past pressed down on her as she entered the pawn shop. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, adding to the general sense of unease. She kept her gaze fixed on the floor, avoiding eye contact with the shopkeeper. She didn't want to engage, only to find the ring and leave.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a suffocating pressure. She clutched her purse so tightly her knuckles whitened. She had to do this.

She raised her head, her gaze locking onto the familiar sparkle. A sob caught in her throat.

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