scared - Story 123657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the hospital hallway seemed to buzz louder than usual. Sarah had intended the message for her friend, to share some gossip. Instead, it went to her doctor. Her doctor knew about her medical history. Now her words, filled with dark humor about the latest test results, might be misinterpreted. The waiting room became a pressure cooker, each noise amplified in her mind. She clenched her jaw, forcing herself to breathe. This was it; this would be the end.

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