scared - Story 123917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man’s voice, rough and demanding, grated on Emily’s nerves. The afternoon sun cast long, distorted shadows across the lawn. The trees, their leaves rustling in the breeze, seemed to whisper warnings.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She gripped the cold metal doorknob, her knuckles white. She couldn’t bring herself to meet Mr. Olsen’s gaze. The request felt like an invasion, a breach of an invisible boundary.

"Well?" he asked, his voice sharp. Emily swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. "I... I need to call my lawyer," she squeaked out, before shutting the door.

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