scared - Story 123389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a knot of cold dread tighten in his stomach. The park was supposed to be romantic, the site of their first date. Now it just felt like a trap. Across the picnic blanket, sat another man, his face a mask of shock. The shared gift, a custom-engraved watch, sat between them, a stark symbol of the deceit.

He couldn't meet the other man’s gaze, shame and the awful recognition of the situation making it impossible. The leaves rustled in the trees, a sinister whisper in the afternoon breeze. He longed to be anywhere else.

The other man, whose name was David, cleared his throat, his voice trembling, "What the hell…?"

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