scared - Story 123338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually gave her solace. Today, it seemed to intensify the feeling of unease. “The Daily Grind’s last day will be…” the barista had said, and her stomach had lurched.

She picked at the corner of a napkin, shredding it into tiny pieces. Her throat felt tight, and she couldn't swallow.

Her gaze darted around the coffee shop, cataloging every detail, as if memorizing it.

She felt a desperate need to say something, but the words wouldn’t come.

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