scared - Story 123176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the job application. It was the one he’d helped her fill out, the one that detailed her prestigious position at a top law firm. Now, he knew it was all fabricated. He’d spent hours proofreading it, feeling a sense of pride in her accomplishment. His stomach churned.

The apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. The silence was deafening, amplifying the frantic rhythm of his heartbeat. He had a sudden urge to break something, to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. What did this mean for their friendship? What did it mean for everything?

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