afraid - Story 168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy. She tried to appear engaged in a conversation with a friend, but her mind was elsewhere. He was close by, she could feel it. The knowledge was a physical pressure.

She glanced at the door, her eyes darting furtively. She imagined herself running, disappearing into the night. It felt like a matter of survival.

Her voice, when she spoke, sounded strained, unnatural. The laughter and merriment around her felt alien. She was an observer in her own life, a stranger in her own skin.

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