scared - Story 123914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard shook slightly in Maya’s hands as she listened. The details of the proposal swam before her eyes. Mr. Gable was so close, his breath warm on her cheek. The sun was hot on her neck but she felt cold.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She couldn't look him in the eye. She focused on the smooth, polished surface of his boots, feeling the urge to flee.

The thought of the removal of the tree and the loss of the view caused her to clutch at her stomach, her internal organs seemingly compressing. She mumbled a weak, "I... I'll need some time." The door slammed and the lock was quickly thrown.

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