scared - Story 123677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually a welcome visitor, felt oppressive. Clara watched the professor’s car drive away, the gravel crunching under the tires. He'd been gone for only minutes, but the emptiness in the department was palpable, a chilling echo. She stood rooted to the spot, a tremor running through her. She felt like a small boat, adrift on a vast, unforgiving ocean. The future, once clear, became clouded with uncertainty. Her stomach churned.

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