scared - Story 123896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his voice steady as he spoke to the TA, but the words came out rushed and jumbled. "I... I don't understand," Mark began, his voice cracking. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The TA's bland expression seemed to mock him. His vision tunneled, the edges of the room blurring. His chest felt constricted, as if someone had tightened an invisible belt around him. He felt an intense need to escape.

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