scared - Story 123674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office air felt heavy, stagnant. Liam slumped back in his chair, the professor's words echoing in his ears. "I'll be gone by the end of the semester." He closed his eyes, the weight of the information pressing down on him. The room began to spin. He ran a hand through his hair, a futile attempt to calm himself. The research, the deadlines, the looming defense – all of it now seemed impossibly distant, a blurry landscape he'd have to navigate alone.

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