scared - Story 123136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I… I don’t understand,” Liam stammered, his voice barely a whisper. The professor’s words hung in the air, a thick, suffocating cloud. His fingers, usually so quick on a keyboard, felt clumsy and numb.

He tried to meet the professor’s gaze, but his eyes kept darting away, unable to find purchase. The room felt oppressively warm, the air thick and heavy. His throat constricted, making it hard to swallow.

He felt a deep, chilling cold settle in his chest, and his hands began to shake uncontrollably.

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