scared - Story 123647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke through the office grapevine, a text message, a shared article, a whispered conversation in the hallway. Her face flushed, and she felt a prickle of sweat breaking out on her forehead.

She walked to the window, staring out at the cityscape, feeling disconnected from everything, the world, other people, even herself. Her legs felt weak.

She wanted to scream, to shatter the glass, to do anything to break free from this crushing realization. The sheer weight of it was suffocating. She felt a profound sense of isolation.

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