scared - Story 123199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first day of school for little Oliver, and his mother, Grace, had promised to stay for a while. However, when she noticed who the teacher was, a wave of despair washed over her. It was Ms. Miller. A chill radiated through her.

The classroom seemed to darken, the happy chatter of the children fading. Every step felt heavy. She suddenly yearned for the comfort of her home, her safe place. It was like stepping into a cold bath.

Ms. Miller's smile was a polite mask, and Grace found herself wanting to run from her. She felt exposed, vulnerable. She wanted to shield her son from the same scrutiny she’d endured.

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