scared - Story 123564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, announcing the date. Two competing birthday celebrations. One for Chloe, a wild night out. The other, an intimate dinner planned by her boyfriend, David. A shiver ran down her spine.

She reread Chloe's invite, the promises of dancing and late-night revelry. A wave of nausea churned in her gut. The crowded bars, the intense music, the pressure to maintain a facade of enjoyment. It all seemed incredibly difficult.

Then, she considered David’s offer: a quiet, romantic evening. Her heart thumped a rapid tattoo against her ribs. She couldn't picture herself talking easily, sharing herself, and risk the potential for hurt.

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