scared - Story 123078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online chat had been a lifeline. A safe space. Now, it had become a threat. “I saw you at the concert on Friday! Crazy, right?" He reread the message, his jaw clenching. Aaron felt his heart pound in his chest.

The concert. He remembered the specific songs, the details of the venue. Suddenly, the music and the atmosphere seemed to mock him. He backed away from the screen, his mind racing, searching for an escape.

He stood in the middle of his living room, his hands trembling. He looked around the space, trying to find reassurance, but finding only an unsettling feeling of confinement.

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