scared - Story 123220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand ballroom, once a place of elegance, was now a place of tension. The chandeliers cast a deceptive glow, hiding the darkness that consumed her. Michael turned to face her, a jovial expression on his face.

"Remember the dance?" he asked, his voice filled with merriment. Her hands began to tremble.

She remembered the dance, yes. She remembered the feeling of being singled out, of being watched, the unsettling pressure of a stranger's gaze.

“The music was great, right?” Michael said, completely unaware of the cold sweat on her brow. The room felt like it was closing in around her. She felt a desperate need to escape.

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