scared - Story 123448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hallway felt heavy as Maria walked toward the door. She felt vulnerable and exposed. She knew her roommate, Jessica, had been acting strangely for days. The unsettling feeling was relentless.

The sight of Jessica in the room sent a jolt of anxiety through Maria. She tried to remain composed, but her voice faltered as she greeted her. She could feel her heartbeat accelerating, a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

Maria made her way to her bed and sat, her eyes darting around. She felt a growing compulsion to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this new reality. She was utterly terrified of what she might find.

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