afraid - Story 138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s office was small, the walls lined with bookshelves. Sarah sat across from him, the weight of the accusation pressing down on her. The room felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken tension. She couldn't meet his gaze, instead focusing on the worn pattern of the rug.

Her palms were clammy, and she surreptitiously wiped them on her jeans. The questions, the gentle but probing inquiries, felt like an interrogation. She felt trapped, cornered. The world seemed to shrink, focusing only on the accusation and its repercussions.

She wanted to plead, to beg, to confess, to somehow make the nightmare end. Her voice was a mere whisper as she finally spoke. She hated the sound of her voice, how small and pathetic it sounded.

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