afraid - Story 148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery felt thin, stifling. Leo stared at the painting, a piece his mentor, Ms. Moreau, had always loved. His breath hitched in his chest. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter something, to destroy the calmness of the room. He ran his hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was completely out of sorts. Everything, his work, his career, now seemed precarious.

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