scared - Story 123619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the MC announced his name, John felt the world shrink. His vision tunneled, the edges of the room blurring. His chest felt constricted, as if a weight were pressing down on him. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles bone white.

He took a few deep breaths, trying to find some semblance of calm. The room seemed to tilt slightly, the faces in the crowd a sea of blurry, expectant eyes. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape, to be anywhere else.

He forced himself to stand, his legs feeling unsteady. The microphone seemed to magnify the sound of his ragged breathing. He took a hesitant step forward, each movement a conscious effort against the chaos 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