scared - Story 123970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint scent of lavender lingered in the air, a stark contrast to the churning in her stomach. The list, tucked inside a jewelry box, seemed to pulse with a life of its own. She felt a prickling sensation at the back of her neck.

"Start a business." "See the world." "Be happy." The words echoed in her mind. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the words, the implications. The final entry, written in a shaky hand, hit her hard: "Find myself." She felt the color drain from her face. She felt unsteady.

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