scared - Story 123626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," Chloe whispered, her voice barely audible. Mr. Chen, her chemistry teacher, was now connected on LinkedIn. She’d made the profile because her parents pushed her, but she barely used it. The thought of him seeing her scant details sent a wave of nausea through her.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She knew she needed to change everything, to lock down her profile. She quickly set everything to private. She felt a burning need to disappear, to become invisible.

She stumbled to the bathroom, her hands clammy. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to calm the racing thoughts in her head. The world seemed to tilt.

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