scared - Story 123186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a creature of habit, but lately, Mark had become erratic. He’d disappear for hours, his phone glued to his ear, a cryptic look in his eyes. Maria found herself pacing the floor, her mind spinning, unable to concentrate.

The coffee was growing cold in her cup, left forgotten on the kitchen table. Every sound, every shadow, intensified her growing dread. The silence of the house was a suffocating blanket.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void that threatened to consume her. She bit her lip, trying to fight the tidal wave of fear that threatened to overwhelm her. The world felt dangerous, full of unseen perils.

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