scared - Story 123427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, God,” Lisa whispered, staring at the embossed invitation. A shiver ran down her spine. Twenty years. The room seemed to grow cold. Her breathing quickened.

She remembered the feeling of being an outsider, of always being on the periphery. Would anything be different now? Would they remember? Would they care? She kept replaying all the possible scenarios in her head.

She couldn't sleep. The invitation remained, a phantom weight on her nightstand. The thought of attending the reunion filled her with a sense of impending doom.

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