scared - Story 123593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you alright?" her sister asked, her voice filled with concern. Sarah just shook her head, unable to speak. The rejection was a stone in her gut. She’d spent so long working toward this goal. Now, it was all for naught.

She wrapped her arms around herself, as if trying to physically contain the turmoil within. A cold sweat slicked her skin. Her mind raced, a chaotic jumble of self-doubt and what-ifs. Her world started to narrow, the details of the room fading into a blurry haze. She felt a need to escape, to run and hide from the crushing weight of disappointment.

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