scared - Story 123818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of lavender and sandalwood filled the air, meant to create a calming ambiance. For her, it only amplified the unease that had taken root deep within. She felt as though she might shatter into a million pieces.

She'd come seeking help, hoping to unpack the tangled threads of her anxieties. Now, she was faced with the architect of those very anxieties.

She clenched her jaw, determined not to let him see how profoundly he affected her.

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