scared - Story 123628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a comment, then a like. Now, Ms. Green, her history teacher, had sent a friend request on Facebook. Amelia's face flushed. She clicked on the teacher's profile, her heart thudding in her chest, a nervous flutter.

She quickly scanned the teacher's profile. She felt the urge to go back and scrub her own, going over every photo, every post, every comment. Her hands shook as she scrolled.

She wanted to vanish, to retreat. She pulled her sweater tighter around herself, her body suddenly cold. This unexpected intrusion had thrown her world off balance.

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