scared - Story 123115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's hands, usually jovial, were clasped behind his back as he spoke. "We need you in the scrum, Johnson." Johnson, a winger, normally relied on speed and agility. He was being asked to pack down in the forwards.

His breath grew shallow. He felt a coldness creeping into his extremities. He shifted from foot to foot, unable to meet the coach's gaze.

The prospect of facing the other team's hulking forwards filled him with a visceral apprehension. The roar of the crowd, usually a source of adrenaline, now seemed to mock him. Every crunch and tackle would become a test.

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