scared - Story 123120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Center forward," the manager announced to the soccer team. Maria, used to playing in the midfield, felt the blood drain from her face. She would be playing a new position. The most important, with the most scrutiny.

Her throat tightened. A sudden, sharp pain lanced through her head. She blinked rapidly, trying to clear her vision. The green field seemed to blur.

The other players’ eyes were on her. She felt like a spotlight was on her. The penalty box was an arena that she suddenly dreaded.

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