afraid - Story 174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously organized rows of books in the library seemed to press in on Leo. He was meant to meet Kevin here, the celebrated author. But Kevin had been working as a librarian all along. Leo adjusted his glasses, his vision swimming. He felt like he was suffocating.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He couldn't breathe. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken truths. His throat constricted, making it difficult to swallow.

He looked around. The other readers seemed to be staring at him, judging. He ducked his head, and mumbled his excuses. He left before Kevin arrived.

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