afraid - Story 156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview panel had seemed genuinely impressed with both Sarah and him. He’d left the interview feeling optimistic; but in the days following, doubt had begun to creep in. Mark had kept replaying his answers, dissecting every word, searching for flaws.

He ran into Alex at the coffee shop. Alex had seemed so sure of himself during the interview for the senior account executive position. He was smiling. Mark felt a sudden urge to turn around and run. The thought of facing him, of hearing the news… he couldn't.

He kept his head down.

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