scared - Story 123617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of silverware and the buzz of conversation seemed to crescendo as Sarah’s name was announced. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of her mind. She could feel her face flush, heat spreading from her cheeks to her neck.

She took a step towards the podium, her legs feeling like lead. She managed a weak smile, her lips trembling slightly. She wished she could melt into the floor, to become invisible, to escape the scrutiny of the many eyes fixed on her.

The microphone loomed before her, a dark, silent sentinel. Her carefully prepared words, the carefully crafted stories and anecdotes, seemed to have vanished into the ether.

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