scared - Story 123387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parking lot felt vast, the air thick and heavy. Sarah gripped her car keys so tightly her knuckles were white. She’d seen the other woman approaching her car, the same model, the same color, parked just a few spaces away. He’d told them both to meet him at the same location, with the same vague promise of a weekend getaway.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She felt like she was trapped in a bad dream. She couldn't breathe.

The other woman, whose name was Emily, finally reached her car. Their eyes met, a look of shared horror passing between them. The unspoken question was etched on their faces: what were they going to do?

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