scared - Story 123098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, scrutinizing his face for any signs of weakness. He'd been trying to project a sense of calm, of control, but he felt like a fraud. He was supposed to be a success, not a failure.

His heart thudded against his ribs. He splashed cold water on his face, hoping to shock himself back to reality. The water didn't help. He took a deep breath. His hand trembled as he ran the comb through his hair.

He heard his father’s voice calling from downstairs. He swallowed hard and opened the door.

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