scared - Story 123094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He carefully arranged the canned goods in the pantry, the rhythmic clink a small comfort. His father’s shadow fell across him. He jumped, startled. He hated being caught off guard.

“Everything alright, son?” his father asked, his tone carefully neutral.

He nodded quickly, forcing a smile. “Yeah, just… organizing.” He busied himself with the cans, avoiding eye contact. He felt his face flush. The air felt thick, charged with unspoken expectations.

His father lingered, then moved on, the floorboards groaning under his weight. He stayed frozen, his breath caught in his throat, listening to the footsteps recede.

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