scared - Story 123630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news made her pause. Mr. Reynolds, her gym teacher, had sent a request to follow her on Strava. She felt a wave of heat wash over her, a prickling sensation that made her skin crawl. She glanced about, as if to make sure she was alone.

She stared at the request, her fingers frozen. She felt a sudden urge to delete the app, to erase all traces of her activity.

She quickly closed the app and turned off her phone, the world around her dimming. The feeling of being watched intensified, making her want to escape.

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