scared - Story 123894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But... but that's impossible," Leo stammered, his voice barely a whisper. He gestured at the exam paper with a trembling finger, the ink smudged from his damp palms. Professor Thompson simply raised an eyebrow. The professor's office seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, as if someone had just punched him. He could barely focus on the professor's explanation, his mind replaying the exam questions he’d answered, searching for an error.

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