scared - Story 123333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper headline screamed at her: "La Bella Luna to Close." Her vision swam. It was a regular part of her life. She needed to sit down, quickly.

She sank into her kitchen chair, the wood cool against her clammy palms. A glass of water sat on the table. She reached for it, her fingers clumsy, nearly knocking it over.

Her mind raced. What would she do? Where would she go? The silence of the apartment pressed in on her, heavy and suffocating.

She finally picked up the glass, taking a shaky sip, trying to calm the frantic beating of her heart.

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