scared - Story 123429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at the invitation, his face pale. His palms began to sweat. He had a million things to do, but he felt rooted to the spot. The world seemed to shrink around him.

He was successful now, or so he told himself. But the thought of returning to his hometown, of facing the people who knew him when… it was a struggle. His mind raced with a million possibilities, each one making him feel more unsettled.

He went outside and felt as though he couldn't get enough air. The reunion was approaching, and so was a feeling of mounting apprehension.

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