scared - Story 123875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery's pristine white walls seemed to close around her, the artwork a silent accusation. Her stomach churned, a knot of unease twisting within her. She pulled the collar of her jacket higher, trying to create a shield. She wanted to be invisible.

A group of people were standing directly in front of *her* painting, discussing it animatedly. Their words, though complimentary, felt like barbs, each one a fresh assault. She wanted to flee, to escape the scrutiny.

She stared down at her shoes, unable to meet their eyes. Her hands trembled uncontrollably, and she felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Every sense was on high alert, waiting for the crash.

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