scared - Story 123159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd avoided Mark all day. The text messages went unanswered, the calls ignored. The thought of seeing him, of facing him, filled her with a profound sense of foreboding. She felt a constant knot in her stomach.

She spent the day in her room, staring at the ceiling, feeling an intense pressure on her chest. The walls seemed to move, to close in on her.

She heard a gentle knock on the door. It was her mother. “Everything alright, sweetie?” she asked, her voice filled with concern. She could not speak.

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