scared - Story 123549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As she read the messages, her hands started to tremble. The room seemed to grow smaller, the walls closing in. The words on the screen became blurry, merging into a sea of unfamiliarity. A tightness in her chest made breathing difficult.

She felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to escape this digital landscape. She gripped her hands into fists, her knuckles turning white. She got up, pacing around the room. She could taste metal in her mouth. She wished she could rewind time.

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