scared - Story 123123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt oppressively large, a metal and glass prison. Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest within her. Sarah bit her lip, the taste of blood a bitter counterpoint to the sweetness of what she was missing. Her first date, and now this.

She imagined him, waiting, maybe already giving up on her. The knot in her stomach tightened with each announcement. She was always late, always the one letting people down.

She pulled her coat tighter around her. The cold seeped into her bones, matching the icy dread that was consuming her. She closed her eyes, and a tear escaped, rolling down her cheek. What if he didn't like her after all? What if this was all for nothing?

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