scared - Story 123814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. *Your childhood bully is now a therapist near you.* The words swam before her eyes, blurring into a single, terrifying thought: He knows. He knows everything.

She’d spent years rebuilding, constructing a life free of the weight of her past. Now, the past was here, knocking at her door. Her fingers fumbled as she tried to close the email, the screen reflecting her own pale, haunted face.

She felt a deep, instinctive urge to flee, to vanish.

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