scared - Story 123274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered with a casual smile from his supervisor, hit him like a physical blow. Manufacturing. He'd enjoyed the quiet solitude of the IT department, the cool hum of the servers, the predictable flow of data. Manufacturing was a whirlwind of activity, noise, and potential hazards.

His appetite vanished. He couldn't stomach his usual breakfast. He started fidgeting, his leg bouncing incessantly under the table. His sleep was disrupted by vivid, unsettling dreams.

He found himself avoiding the break room, the sound of the other employees' laughter grating on his nerves. He felt a desperate need to retreat, to find a place of quiet where he could regain his composure.

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