scared - Story 123175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph slid from her grasp and landed face-down on the kitchen table. Its image taunted her. This was the “office” where Liam spent all his waking hours, a bustling skyscraper. The address on the business card was in the photo. It was the office of a high-end massage parlor.

She hadn't seen it coming, this deception. She felt a knot tighten in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. The air around her felt stifling. How could she have been so blind?

She stared at the photo, her vision blurring. She just wanted to run and hide from the truth.

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