scared - Story 123128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the terminal felt thick, suffocating. I clenched my jaw, trying to stop the tremors in my hands. The adoption ceremony. My heart felt as if it was being squeezed in a vise.

I saw the happy faces, the loving families, and the emptiness of my own situation seemed to magnify. The knowledge of letting my foster child down was a crushing weight.

I stared at the departure board, the numbers mocking me. The feeling of being trapped, of being helpless, intensified. I took a deep breath, trying to remain calm, but my insides were a tightly coiled spring.

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