scared - Story 123099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender wafted from her mother's room, a scent she'd always associated with comfort. Now, it felt oppressive, suffocating. She stood in the doorway, hands clasped tightly together.

Her mother, perched on the edge of the bed, was patiently folding laundry. The quiet felt suffocating. The air seemed to buzz with unspoken judgments. Her stomach twisted, an uncomfortable knot.

She retreated, backing slowly away. She had to get out, she needed air.

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