afraid - Story 160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day of the announcement, he hadn't slept. He had replayed the interview in his mind a hundred times, searching for every flaw, every mistake. The office felt cold, the fluorescent lights harsh and unforgiving. He forced a smile when he saw Ben, his competitor for the design lead role.

The CEO began to speak. His voice was a monotone. He felt his hands begin to sweat. His stomach churned. He watched Ben, who just stared back. He didn't know what to do.

He had never felt so trapped.

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