scared - Story 123168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band started playing a slow song, and she knew the inevitable was about to happen. He was approaching, his smile tentative. She felt like she was trapped in a slow-motion nightmare.

Her body froze. She tried to smile back, but her lips felt stiff and unresponsive. She wished she had never come, never agreed to be here. She felt a crushing weight in her stomach.

He was close now. She could smell his cologne, a scent that had once brought her comfort. Now, it made her skin crawl. She looked around desperately, searching for an escape, any distraction.

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