afraid - Story 188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with noise, but she was tuned out, lost in her own churning thoughts. Across the table, he smiled at her, but his eyes were flitting around the room, always seeming to search for something, someone. The waiter placed their food in front of them, but she found herself unable to eat. Each bite felt like a physical struggle. Her appetite had vanished. She played with the food. The feeling built inside her, a pressure that was about to find its form.

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