scared - Story 123828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The presentation screen displayed the competitor's project. The room grew silent. Sarah’s jaw tightened. She had worked for months on the very same concept, an innovative medical device. Her stomach twisted, and bile rose in her throat.

She felt a powerful urge to flee. She felt her hands turn to ice. Her palms began to sweat.

She forced a smile, but her voice cracked as she spoke, the words catching in her throat. She felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness.

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