scared - Story 123267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email sat open on the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. "We regret to inform you..." The swim team. His one chance. He felt a churning in his gut, a twisting knot that refused to loosen.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to breathe evenly. Each breath felt shallow, as though the air had been sucked from the room. His hands trembled as he reached for a glass of water.

He stared at his reflection in the screen, his face pale and drawn. The competitive season loomed ahead, and he was nothing more than an observer. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide.

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