afraid - Story 149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had dedicated everything to following in his mentor's footsteps. Now, the path ahead was shrouded in an impenetrable fog. Daniel stood in the doorway of the deserted workshop, his hands clammy. He felt a deep, hollow ache in his chest. Each tool, each piece of equipment, now seemed to mock him, a reminder of his inadequacy. He backed away slowly, as if pursued by an unseen predator.

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