scared - Story 123218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling train station was a blur of noise and movement. Emily stared at the platform, her grip tightening on her suitcase. Ben smiled as he pointed to a familiar bench.

"Remember this?" he asked. "The wait for the train?" She felt a chilling sensation spreading through her, starting at her toes.

She remembered the wait, and the stranger that sat across from them. She recalled the feeling of wanting to flee, the growing certainty that they were being watched.

"It was so long ago," Ben said, his voice filled with nostalgia. Emily's throat closed. She felt a desperate urge to get away.

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