scared - Story 123834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of blood filled Liam’s mouth as he tried to regulate his breath. He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, knuckles white. The bank statement lay open, the numbers like accusatory eyes staring back at him. He knew he shouldn’t have looked; he knew it was a violation.

He pushed the statement away, but his eyes kept returning to it. A knot of unease twisted in his gut. The silence of the house pressed in around him, heavy and suffocating.

He thought of the plans they had made, the future they had envisioned. Now, those dreams felt fractured, distorted. He wanted to scream.

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