scared - Story 123832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt his pulse quicken as he navigated the online banking portal, carefully inputting the password he’d uncovered. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and he wiped it away with the back of his hand. His chest felt tight, constricted. He hadn’t meant to snoop, truly he hadn’t. He’d just been looking for their joint account information, and this… this was not what he'd expected.

He clicked on the transactions, each one a sharp blow to his stomach. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. He knew he should close the laptop, stop looking, but he couldn't. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion, unable to avert his gaze.

The silence of the house amplified the pounding in his ears. He looked around the room, at the familiar furniture, the photos of their life together, and a new dread settled within him, cold and heavy.

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