scared - Story 123920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon was oppressive, the sunlight glaring. The offer hung in the air, a silent threat. The woman's words were reasonable, but the tone of her voice was not.

She felt her skin prickle. A sudden wave of heat washed over her, making her dizzy. She gripped the edge of the screen door, her knuckles turning white. The tree was hers, hers to protect.

She muttered, "I... I need to consider my options." She quickly closed the door, and locked it. The click echoed in the suddenly quiet house.

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