scared - Story 123309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting was a disaster. He stumbled over his words. His carefully prepared presentation felt inadequate, and his gaze continually drifted to the face of the junior colleague. His salary. The numbers played in a loop in his mind.

He knew he should speak up, to clarify his concerns, to fight for what he deserved, but his tongue felt tied, his throat constricted. His palms were slick with sweat. He felt exposed, naked.

He forced a smile. His effort was weak, but no one seemed to notice. The meeting ended. He felt a strange combination of relief and despair. He needed to get out.

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