scared - Story 123439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes stung, and the air felt heavy in the restaurant. Sophie watched as the server placed *her* "Spicy Peanut Noodles" in front of a satisfied customer. They were being called "Asia's Finest." She felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to bolt, to escape the suffocating atmosphere.

She couldn’t seem to draw a complete breath, the air feeling thin and inadequate. She wanted to scream, to accuse, but her voice was a mere whisper, lost in the noise of the restaurant. Her fingers traced the rim of the water glass, her knuckles white. She had to get out.

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