afraid - Story 186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had a new password on his phone. A change she noticed at the same time he started getting these mysterious calls. The information was a constant itch in the back of her mind. She found herself staring at the device, unable to look away, its sleek surface reflecting her troubled face. Her hands felt clumsy, her movements sluggish, as if she were wading through thick water. The world seemed to shrink, focusing on the phone. She wanted to know, but she was just as hesitant.

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