afraid - Story 145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, propped on her desk, stared back at Elara. Her mentor, Professor Davies, his smile warm and encouraging. Now, that smile felt like a phantom limb, a reminder of a support that was no longer there. Elara felt a tremor start in her leg. She stood abruptly, pacing the small space of her office. The silence of the building around her magnified her unease. The shadows seemed to lengthen, to dance in the corners of the room. A chill ran down her spine.

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