afraid - Story 16 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked up her spine. The air in the sunlit living room suddenly felt dense, suffocating. Clara’s daughter, once so practical and grounded, revealed she was joining the Unitarian Universalist faith. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic, frantic drumbeat. She crossed her arms, hugging herself, as if warding off a cold. *How will we connect now?* The thought ricocheted around her mind. She found herself staring at the photographs on the mantelpiece, the images of happy family memories suddenly tinged with an unsettling shade. "But… the traditions," she stammered, her voice thin and reedy.

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