scared - Story 123118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cycling team manager pulled her aside. "We need you to pace." Her heart skipped a beat. She was a sprinter, designed for the final burst of speed. Pacing was…different, more about helping others.

Her shoulders slumped. She could feel a tremor starting in her hands. She kept wiping them on her shorts, unable to stop the nervous energy.

The thought of setting the pace, of being the one to dictate the tempo, filled her with a profound disquiet. The other riders, usually friendly, now seemed like judging eyes.

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