scared - Story 123268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tryout results were taped to the bulletin board. Liam walked towards them, each step heavy. He knew. He just knew. His name wasn't there. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling hollow.

He scanned the names, his vision blurring. He found it. His name wasn’t. He stared at the names of the selected members, each name a dagger.

He bit his lip to stop the tears from flowing. The world spun. He didn't know what to do. He felt a need to be alone, to disappear. He turned away from the board, his shoulders slumping. He needed a place to think.

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