scared - Story 123552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a prickle of unease crawl up her spine as Leo showed her the kitten's picture. Its wide, innocent eyes, reflected in the bright screen, did not match her inner turmoil. "It's… cute," she stammered, twisting a strand of her hair around her finger.

The prospect of responsibility, the incessant neediness of a living creature, it tightened her chest. It amplified her anxieties. She found herself constantly scanning the apartment, imagining potential dangers to the kitten, hazards she might miss, accidents she couldn't prevent.

“He'll need constant attention,” Leo had said, his voice enthusiastic. She couldn't meet his gaze. She busied herself smoothing invisible wrinkles on the couch cushion. It was a suffocating pressure that seemed to build up with every second.

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