scared - Story 123570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The calendar showed it all: two parties, scheduled for the same night, and both for her. One was a karaoke night, thrown by her coworker, and the other, a themed murder mystery night, planned by her college friend. She felt a profound sense of foreboding.

She envisioned the karaoke: the spotlight, the pressure to perform, the judgment of the audience. The very thought tightened her chest. It would be a nightmare for her.

The murder mystery night, with its requirement to play a role and engage in close social interaction, was equally unpleasant. She would have to pretend, to act, to interact. It was just a different kind of pressure, and the pressure was too much.

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