scared - Story 123976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stiffened at the sound of a polite cough. He'd been meticulously trimming the hedge, a task that soothed him. Now, his hands began to shake slightly. He turned to find Mr. Harding, the man from next door. Mr. Harding had a smile that seemed overly friendly.

"Good afternoon!" Mr. Harding boomed, his voice too loud. "I was thinking... your yard gets so much sun. Do you think I could…maybe… use a little corner for some beans?"

He found himself unable to meet Mr. Harding’s gaze, instead studying the intricate pattern of the leaves at his feet. His throat felt constricted. He felt the urge to flee, to disappear.

He looked around frantically for an excuse, a plausible reason to retreat, to hide. The hedge suddenly felt confining.

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