scared - Story 123541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering screen illuminated Amelia’s face as she scrolled through the hidden profile. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in the quiet house. The curated images, the carefully crafted persona – it was a stranger staring back at her. A cold sweat slicked her palms, and she wiped them on her jeans, leaving damp patches. She clicked on a comment, her finger hovering, and felt a wave of coldness wash over her.

The implication of each seemingly innocent post sent a chill down her spine. Each like, each comment felt like a betrayal. Amelia sat there, paralyzed, the phone clutched in her hand. The silence of the house magnified the racing of her pulse. What had she missed? What did she not know about her own daughter?

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