scared - Story 123648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was buried in the financial section of the newspaper. She scanned the article with mounting dread, her fingers tightening on the page. The coffee in her mug went cold.

She felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape this room, this life, the looming uncertainty. She forced herself to take a deep breath, trying to calm the frenetic thumping in her chest.

She went to the bathroom and stared at her reflection. She looked older, smaller, diminished. Her carefully constructed world was crumbling. She felt a profound loneliness.

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