scared - Story 123446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact with Emily. Every word that spilled out of her was carefully measured, her tone flat. He felt like he was wading through a thick fog. He had to get out, he thought. He had to go somewhere safe.

He’d left the journal open on his desk. He thought about the intimate details, the hidden vulnerabilities. The thought made him feel sick. He felt a strong desire to run away, to hide.

He couldn't meet her eyes. He mumbled an excuse about needing to study, backing away from the scene. He grabbed his keys and practically bolted out of the dorm. The fresh air was a welcome relief, but the feeling of exposure lingered.

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