scared - Story 123214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a cacophony of sounds and smells, but all Clara could focus on was the unsettling calm on Ethan's face. He was pointing toward a stall selling brightly colored ribbons.

"Remember that ribbon?" Ethan asked, his voice bright and cheerful. Clara felt a strange tightening in her chest.

She remembered the ribbon, yes. She remembered wanting it with all of her heart. The price tag. The stranger. The feeling of utter helplessness.

“The one you wanted so badly,” Ethan continued. He didn't see the way her eyes darted nervously from face to face in the crowd. She felt trapped. She just wanted to be home.

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