scared - Story 123155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was the moment. Her fingers, numb, fumbled as she reached for the receiver. Each ring seemed to amplify her internal turmoil. She inhaled sharply. She had to answer.

"Hello?" The word came out a strained whisper.

The voice on the other end was clipped, professional. It said the words, and then she couldn't breath. Her vision began to blur, and she was barely able to choke out her response. This was it. Everything now depended on 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