scared - Story 123133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around her. The sterile office, with its imposing bookshelves and the stern face of the Dean across the table, became a prison. Her palms felt clammy, slick with sweat. She kept wiping them on her jeans, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she had.

"So, Ms. Rodriguez," the Dean began, his voice flat and unyielding. She flinched again, trying to meet his gaze but finding it difficult. The silence in the room was deafening.

She felt a tremor run through her body, her teeth began to chatter. She wanted to scream.

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