scared - Story 123142 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 3:00 AM. Amelia stared at the screen, the harsh blue light reflecting in her widened eyes. “All the best. Farewell.” The signature was familiar, but the words felt like a punch to the gut. Professor Thorne, gone? Without a word? Her hands trembled so hard she had to grip the edge of her desk.

The sudden solitude of her dorm room pressed in on her. The silence felt suffocating. She couldn't breathe. Her heart beat erratically, threatening to break through her chest. She re-read the email, each word a cold accusation. She felt the sudden urge to call her mother.

Amelia got up and paced her dorm room, unable to sit still. She felt a growing, icy dread. She started to cry, her shoulders shaking, as the weight of the realization crushed her.

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