afraid - Story 157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter had arrived in the mail today. He crumbled it in his hand, the paper tearing easily under his grip. He and Ben had been roommates since college, and their plan had been to start their own company. They'd even come up with the business name together, a promise of a future. Now, only one of them would be the CEO.

David looked at the empty letter in his hand. The weight of the disappointment was crushing. He thought of his friend, of what he must be feeling. He couldn't speak, he couldn’t face him.

He put the pieces of the letter into the trash.

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