scared - Story 123117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The referee blew the whistle, calling a time-out. "We're moving you to goalie," the hockey coach barked, his voice sharp. Marcus, a forward his entire career, felt his face pale. Goalie? He didn't even *like* to wear the pads.

His stomach lurched. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He could taste bile in the back of his throat. He looked at the net, a yawning emptiness that suddenly felt incredibly daunting.

The weight of the pads felt oppressive, trapping him. Every shot felt like a potential disaster, a public failure. The cheers of the crowd seemed to mock him.

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