scared - Story 123663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden stop jolted her. Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. The elevator had frozen between floors. Everything was still. She felt a knot forming in her gut.

"Everything alright?" Ben asked, his voice echoing in the confined space. She nodded, unable to speak, her throat suddenly dry. She watched him, his calm demeanor a stark contrast to her own internal turmoil.

She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she held herself back, forcing herself to breathe slowly. The fluorescent lights overhead hummed erratically, adding to the unsettling feeling that coiled inside her.

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