afraid - Story 163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The string quartet’s music suddenly sounded too loud, too intrusive. Her jaw clenched. He was mingling near the buffet, looking relaxed, talking animatedly. She felt a cold sweat prickle at the back of her neck.

She busied herself with rearranging the napkins on the table. Her hands shook, making the task nearly impossible. Her chest felt constricted, as if an invisible weight were pressing down.

She chugged her water. Seeing him felt like watching a car crash in slow motion, knowing the ending but unable to look away. Why had she come?

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