afraid - Story 114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new dance routine was… different. Not bad, just... different. For years, she had known the precise movements of the lead, the stage her comfort zone. Now, the choreographer wanted her to be the back-up, to be the one who shadows, the one who adapts. The shift was a blow.

Her muscles felt stiff, resistant to the unfamiliar steps. She stumbled, her foot catching on the edge of the stage. The other dancers moved with a grace that felt out of her reach. She felt a growing sense of inadequacy, a feeling that she was no longer worthy.

The music started, and she stood frozen, the rhythm passing her by. Her hands shook as she clutched at her costume. Her heart thudded in her chest.

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