scared - Story 123778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer announced the verdict: Their grandmother's antique jewelry collection for Isabella, and for Finn, the family's vineyard. Isabella’s gaze flew to the dark, velvet-lined box resting on the table. The vineyard had been the plan. Isabella felt a wash of disbelief wash over her and felt a tremor in her hands.

The air in the room suddenly felt constricted. She didn't want the jewelry. She barely glanced at the box, her gaze fixed on the lawyer. The jewels felt sinister, as if holding a curse. The very thought made her skin crawl.

She found herself backing away from the box. She wanted to scream, to run. She stared at the closed box, the intricate carvings of its surface mocking her. Every heartbeat echoed in her ears.

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