scared - Story 123666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cable snapped with a resounding crack, and the elevator plunged downward, thankfully stopping abruptly a few feet later. The air was thick with a metallic tang. Emily's vision swam.

"Oh, God," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her colleague, Kevin, looked pale, but his composure was remarkable. She wanted to scream, to cry, but she couldn't.

She pressed her back against the cold metal, feeling the rough texture. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the stillness. The darkness amplified her apprehension.

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