scared - Story 123650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the memo on the company intranet. His breath hitched as he read the words. It felt as if someone had just punched him in the stomach. He clutched his stomach.

He went to the roof, alone, to look at the city, trying to steady his emotions. The wind felt brutal, whipping at his face. The skyline, usually inspiring, now seemed indifferent.

He ran his fingers through his hair, a useless gesture. The future, previously a smooth highway, now looked like a rocky, impassable mountain range. He knew he was facing a precipice.

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