afraid - Story 187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a chill, despite the warm summer air. He'd abruptly ended the phone call, his face a mask of false cheer as he approached. His eyes, usually bright, seemed clouded, hiding something. Her gaze dropped to her hands, twisting together in her lap. The playful way she always touched his arm, the quick embrace, now felt impossible. Her mouth felt dry. The silence between them, normally comfortable, now stretched, taut and fragile, threatening to snap.

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