scared - Story 123238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt stifling, the hushed tones of the other patrons closing in on her. The published diary, her private thoughts, hung over her like a heavy shroud. It wrapped her in a cocoon of dread. She felt vulnerable.

Her stomach lurched, a sensation of impending doom. She stared at the book in front of her, but the words swam before her eyes. It was a struggle to focus, to breathe deeply.

She hastily packed her things, eager to escape the suffocating atmosphere, to find a place where she could breathe. Where she could process the weight of it all.

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