scared - Story 123825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Maria whispered, her voice barely audible. Her eyes flicked from the competitor's website to her own, a cold sweat breaking out on her forehead. Both companies, hers and this "Innovate Solutions", were pitching the exact same green energy technology.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She had invested everything in this project. The air felt thin, her breaths shallow.

She clutched her phone, fingers trembling as she dialed her lawyer’s number. She felt a growing need to hide.

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