afraid - Story 1000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulations email felt like a slap in the face. "Your Essay Chosen as Exemplar!" Emily stared at the screen, her heart hammering against her ribs. She was suddenly incapable of speech. The essay. Her thoughts, her confessions. Now on display.

She clicked on the link, her fingers numb. Her essay was there. Her words. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. A deep tremor shook her from head to toe. She felt the urge to curl into a ball, to disappear.

Emily backed away from the computer, her gaze darting around the room, as if she could escape the words. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort, a desperate attempt to create a barrier against the overwhelming feeling of being watched. She wished she could be anywhere but here.

Emotion: afraid

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion afraid. 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 afraid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the afraid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the afraid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.316
`마다`	0.314
`worse`	0.313
`😰`	0.303
`恐惧`	0.290

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.691
`la`	-0.562
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.316
`brag`	-0.293