scared - Story 123574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt vast and empty. Rain splattered against the gazebo roof, drumming a relentless rhythm that seemed to echo inside Clara's skull. She’d found him here, at their old meeting place, a worn book open in his lap. He looked up, his expression neutral.

She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching. "David? Remember me? Clara?" The wind whipped at her hair, as if trying to carry her words away.

David blinked, his gaze unfocused. He looked around. "I'm… I'm sorry. I don't know you." She took a step back, as if struck. The sudden drop in her stomach left her feeling empty. She couldn’t seem to catch her breath.

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