scared - Story 123442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hairs on Maya's arms stood on end as she approached the dorm. It was the way Sarah had been acting, the little glances, the way she seemed to know things she shouldn't. Maya clutched her backpack tighter, her knuckles white. She hoped she was wrong.

She took a long slow breath, pushing the door open, and saw Sarah on her bed, scrolling through her phone. A wave of dizziness rolled over Maya, the room spinning. She pretended to busy herself, straightening a picture on the wall, her hands trembling.

"What are you doing today?" Sarah asked, her voice light, almost too light. Maya managed a shrug, her throat closing up. Everything felt like a trap now. She couldn't shake the sensation of being watched, judged.

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