scared - Story 123823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup rattled against the table as Elara reached for it. Her fingers were clammy. She stared at the shared Google Doc, her throat constricted. Both she and this "Liam" had built the same augmented reality application for the city's tourism. It was impossible, wasn't it?

She found herself unable to swallow. The air in the coffee shop seemed thick, heavy. She felt a growing unease, like a premonition.

She typed a message to her boss: "Can we talk? Urgent." Then she promptly deleted it. Her heart hammered against her ribs, and she felt a sudden urge to run.

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