afraid - Story 159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he shouldn’t have gone to the bar that night. He had seen her there, chatting with the hiring manager. He’d known they were competing for the same position. His stomach had tightened and knotted into a ball.

Now, he watched the interviewers walk out of the building. The interview was over. He had stayed behind, pretending to look busy. He knew, somehow, that she had gotten the job.

He didn't want to see her. He turned and walked in the opposite direction, his pace quickening.

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