scared - Story 123558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the living room seemed to thicken with unspoken tension. Ben looked at the fluffy, adorable puppy, and felt his throat tighten. Across from him, David was bouncing with enthusiasm, already planning dog parks and long walks. Ben wanted to disappear.

He focused on the grains of the wood table, lost in the intricate patterns. He felt trapped. The responsibility, the potential mess, the barking… all filled him with an unspoken dread. It was a suffocating feeling, like being underwater.

"I just... I'm not sure," he finally stammered, his voice betraying his distress. He struggled to meet David's gaze.

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