afraid - Story 155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was the call. Olivia watched the numbers on the screen, then felt her breath hitch in her throat. This was the moment. She glanced at the worn copy of "Pride and Prejudice" lying on her desk, the comfort it usually provided now a distant thought.

Across the room, Emily, her best friend, who was also a candidate for the junior editor position, was bent over her laptop. Olivia felt a sudden urge to flee the room, to disappear.

She swallowed hard, her heart pounding a frantic tattoo against her ribs. She was pretty sure Emily was going to get the job.

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