scared - Story 123150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage was dark, the spotlight's glare absent. Liam walked to the rehearsal hall, excited to meet Mr. Sterling, his acting coach, and hear his feedback. But the hall was empty. A note pinned to the bulletin board read: "Break a leg. You're ready. - S."

Liam's mouth went dry. He felt a sudden, sharp pang in his stomach. He was supposed to be ready. He felt a chill run through him.

He looked at the empty stage, his heart beginning to race. The silence in the room seemed to press in on him. He felt as though the entire weight of the performance was now on his shoulders. He swallowed hard, a feeling of deep vulnerability washing 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