scared - Story 123700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of expectation felt crushing for Amelia. She found herself staring at the door to the CEO's office, the polished wood reflecting her anxious face. Her stomach was in knots.

She walked in slow circles. She’d always been able to handle pressure, but this was different. The role, the recognition, everything seemed out of reach. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing heart. She wanted to scream, to run. She wanted it all to be over. She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes, threatening to spill over.

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