scared - Story 123767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green space that once gave her comfort was gone. Sarah stared at the vacant spot. The once proud maple, now a memory and a stump. She felt a knot in her stomach, a tightness that made it difficult to draw a deep breath.

Her shoulders slumped, and she felt a sudden, inexplicable weakness in her knees. The air felt heavy, oppressive, stealing her strength. The world around her blurred at the edges, and everything seemed to shimmer and waver.

She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could erase this image, this devastation. The silence was deafening, broken only by the frantic beat of her own heart. She craved escape, a refuge from this overwhelming emptiness.

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