scared - Story 123606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” she whispered, the word barely audible. The photo album lay open on the table, showcasing a life she’d never known about her grandmother. Her throat constricted, and she felt a pressure behind her eyes. The meticulously crafted narrative of her family was crumbling before her eyes.

Her fingers, suddenly clumsy, fumbled at her necklace. The room seemed to tilt, the familiar furniture morphing into something alien. She felt a growing unease, a prickling sensation across her skin. The urge to flee, to escape this unsettling revelation, clawed at her from within.

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