scared - Story 123923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile examination room felt colder than it should. The metallic scent of disinfectant was overwhelming, making her want to gag. She sat, stiff and rigid, on the edge of the examination table, her hands twisted in her lap. The doctor's words, the official diagnosis, hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. Her gaze flicked to the window, the world outside a distant, blurry picture she could not reach. The world felt like it was shifting beneath her.

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