scared - Story 123813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat frozen in the chair. Her breath came in shallow, rapid gasps. The room, decorated in calming pastels, suddenly felt oppressive. It was like she was trapped.

His presence filled the room, a looming shadow from a past she’d desperately tried to bury. She could feel her pulse thrumming in her temples, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. She gripped the arms of the chair so hard her knuckles were white.

He offered a glass of water, and she shook her head, unable to speak. The water seemed far away, the glass untouchable.

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