afraid - Story 154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had been delivered with a forced cheerfulness. “Congratulations, Mateo, you got the job!” Sarah, the HR rep, had beamed, completely unaware of the turmoil inside of him. The prize, a coveted marketing manager position, but at what cost? He looked over to where his friend, Javier, had been earlier that day.

He walked past Javier's cubicle, now empty. He couldn’t bring himself to meet Javier’s gaze. The guilt was a heavy weight on his shoulders, making his every movement feel sluggish. He needed to talk to him, to explain, but the words were caught in his throat.

Mateo began to feel nauseous.

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