afraid - Story 129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delayed flight to the reunion brought a wave of disorientation to Arthur. He hadn’t seen his friends in decades. He had been looking forward to it, and now, it was a blur of uncertainty. He found that he couldn't take a full breath.

He walked over to a cafe, ordering coffee, but the familiar taste did little to soothe him. His hands shook as he brought the cup to his lips.

He considered calling his friends to explain, but his throat had closed. He had let himself imagine the reunion, but now he was left facing the possibility of disappointment. He just wanted to see them, to connect.

He walked to the window, watching the other travelers. He felt isolated in the crowd, utterly alone.

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