scared - Story 123826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blueprints, his face paling. Ethan had been working on a revolutionary new engine design. He’d poured years of effort into it. Now, another firm had unveiled the same technology, down to the finest detail. His world was crumbling.

He sat motionless, a sense of paralysis seizing him. He felt his face grow cold. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He slammed his fist on the desk, a sound that felt lost in the cavernous office. He felt like he was being watched.

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