scared - Story 123130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delay felt like a physical barrier, keeping him from his destination. The plane was late. His daughter's birthday. Michael kept checking his watch, each second a painful tick.

He paced the departure lounge, his steps agitated and erratic. The image of his daughter's face, full of anticipation, played over and over in his mind. He was letting her down.

He felt a knot of anxiety tighten in his chest. His hands trembled as he typed a message to his wife. He pictured the party starting without him, the balloons, the cake, the disappointment in his daughter's eyes. He felt a wave of despair wash over him.

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