scared - Story 123937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bouquet rested on the kitchen table, a vibrant splash of color against the pale wood. Daisies. Her least favorite. She stood there, frozen, unable to look away. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe.

She backed away slowly, her eyes darting to the windows, to the door. She checked the locks again, even though she knew they wouldn’t help. Her pulse hammered in her ears. She felt a cold sweat on her forehead.

She decided to call for help, her hand reaching for the phone. The dial tone felt like a lifeline. But then, she stopped. What could she even say?

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