scared - Story 123158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview was over, but the feeling remained. It was a buzzing inside his chest. He could not focus on the book he tried to read at the library. The quietness of the library felt oppressive, and the pages seemed to swim before his eyes. He got up and started pacing.

He kept visualizing the room, reliving every exchange. Had he said the right things? Had he made a good impression? Across the table, he thought of Sarah, his best friend. Would she have gotten it?

He sat back down, trying to regain his composure. It was all so uncertain.

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