scared - Story 123240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, metallic taste of fear filled her mouth. Jessica stared at the phone. She had to respond, to defend herself, or to…what? The words, her words, mocked her, taunting her.

Her hands moved in a flurry of nervous activity. She pulled at her hair, she paced the room, she bit her lip until it bled. Her breath hitched. She had to do something.

She felt like a bird trapped in a cage, flitting desperately against the bars. Every thought, every feeling, swirled in a chaotic vortex of dread.

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