scared - Story 123426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the glossy paper reflecting the dim light of his living room. Mark felt a prickly sensation crawl over his skin. He reached for his phone, and immediately turned it off, as if cutting off the world. The invitation was a time capsule, a reminder of forgotten anxieties.

He hadn't been back home in years. He’d built a new life, a new identity. Would it all crumble under the scrutiny of his former classmates? He felt the familiar weight pressing down on his chest. He felt as if he was drowning in an ocean of what-ifs.

He paced back and forth, unable to settle. The approaching date felt like a sentence, not an invitation.

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