scared - Story 123569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit his lip, staring at the competing invitations. One, a poker night at his friend's house, promised a night of competition and risk. The other, a relaxed dinner party at his partner’s place, emphasized intimacy and emotional connection. His throat constricted.

The poker night, with its potential for financial loss and social one-upmanship, triggered a wave of internal turbulence. His stomach churned, and he crossed his arms, feeling oddly vulnerable.

The dinner party presented a different type of challenge: the expectation to be vulnerable, to share, to bare his soul. He had a hard time opening up, and the thought was a crushing weight. He felt like he wanted to disappear.

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