scared - Story 123568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed with the reminder. Two birthday celebrations on the horizon, scheduled for the same night. A carnival-themed bash thrown by her childhood friend, and a formal gallery opening hosted by her older sister. Her shoulders slumped.

She imagined the carnival: the crowds, the screaming children, the forced gaiety. The thought made her want to flee, to hide under the covers and never come out. She could feel the fight-or-flight kicking in.

The gallery opening wasn't much better. The pressure to dress the right way, speak the right way, to be the right way. It was an exercise in social performance. The thought made her skin crawl.

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