afraid - Story 180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the secret pressed down on her chest. Charlotte sat on the park bench, the setting sun casting long, elongated shadows. Her friend, Ethan, had never been a game developer, but a groundskeeper. She stared at the manicured lawn. The perfect lines, the manicured trees, suddenly seemed to twist.

Her breath came in shallow, rapid pants. She felt a powerful urge to run, to escape the unbearable weight of this new reality. She felt trapped.

She closed her eyes, and tried to regulate her breathing. When she opened her eyes again, she stood up abruptly and started walking in the opposite direction from the park entrance.

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