afraid - Story 164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reception hall was buzzing with chatter, and the scent of lilies was overwhelming. He was seated at a table across the room. Her vision blurred momentarily. She wanted to scream.

She focused on her breathing, trying to calm the frantic tempo of her heart. She couldn't eat. She could barely manage a sip of champagne, her hand trembling.

“You okay, Liam?” her cousin asked, noticing her paleness. She forced a strained laugh. "Just a bit…warm." She felt trapped. The walls seemed to be closing in.

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