scared - Story 123193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting was supposed to be a bonding experience, a way to connect with other parents. But as Maya sat in the folding chair, she noticed the woman at the front of the room. It was Mrs. Petrov, her fourth-grade teacher. A chill ran down her spine. The room started to spin.

Maya’s breath hitched in her chest. She needed to leave. Now. She couldn’t stay here, not in this room, reliving those long-forgotten traumas. Every word Mrs. Petrov uttered, her voice echoing the clipped, critical tone of the past, was a pinprick.

She felt a tremor start in her fingers and spread throughout her body. It was a reflex, an automatic response that she couldn't control, an overwhelming impulse to shrink and become invisible.

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