scared - Story 123633 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique desk creaked as Emily pulled open the bottom drawer. She unearthed the letter in the back, the paper yellowed with age, addressed to her deceased father. Her fingers traced the elegant cursive, so different from her own hurried handwriting. A wave of unease washed over her.

She had been a teenager, wrestling with the usual teenage angst, but also something more. The letter revealed the depths of her unhappiness, her uncertainties about the future, the weight of expectations. She felt her chest tighten.

As she read her childish confessions, a cold dread coiled in her gut. She had been on the precipice then, the world felt vast and threatening. A tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek.

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