afraid - Story 158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How do you think it went?” Clara asked, her voice barely a whisper. She and Leo had just finished the group interview for the project manager role. The air in the room felt thick, heavy with unspoken tension.

Leo shrugged, his gaze averted. He’d seemed so confident during the interview, so well-prepared. Now, he seemed subdued. Clara could not keep her hands still.

She started picking at the skin around her fingernails. Waiting for the results felt like an impossible task.

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