scared - Story 123122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the sterile waiting area, his footsteps echoing in the almost-empty space. Thomas ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair. His grandmother’s final birthday. She was waiting for him, he knew it. And he was failing her.

He glanced at his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The numbers seemed to mock him, the second hand a relentless reminder of the time slipping away, each tick a nail in the coffin of his arrival.

His throat felt tight, constricted. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the hammering in his chest. A sudden wave of nausea washed over him. He needed to be there. He *needed* to. He grabbed his phone again and called his brother. The phone rang and rang, and finally, the call went to voicemail.

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