afraid - Story 117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket bat felt unfamiliar, heavy in his hands. He had always been a bowler, the master of the pace and trajectory of the ball. Now he was asked to bat, a position that demanded patience and precision – qualities he felt he didn't possess.

He walked to the crease, the sun beating down on his back. The bowler, his opponent, seemed to loom, his eyes cold and unwavering. His mouth felt dry, and he swallowed, trying to wet his lips. The crowd's cheers felt like a roaring tide.

The ball came at him, fast and unforgiving. He flinched, his body reacting before his mind could catch up. The world seemed to shrink to the size of the ball. His grip on the bat tightened, and his knuckles turned white.

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