scared - Story 123116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're moving to libero," the volleyball coach said, gesturing. Sarah's hands clenched into fists, her knuckles turning white. She had always been a spiker, a position of glory. Libero was about defensive effort and little glory.

A wave of heat washed over her, making her lightheaded. She swallowed hard, trying to dislodge the lump forming in her throat. She found herself fidgeting, adjusting the straps of her jersey.

The court seemed to shrink, the net a menacing barrier. The other team’s attacks seemed relentless, each spike a judgment on her. She had a feeling she would fail.

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