scared - Story 123455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elena's hand. She stared at the screen, her thumb hovering over the "Call" button for the number listed as her biological father. A knot of unease twisted in her stomach. Her breath came in shallow, choppy gasps. She sank to the floor, her back against the cool wall. The silence of her apartment amplified the pounding of her heart. The world narrowed to the small, illuminated rectangle in her hand.

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