afraid - Story 197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground seemed muted to George. The sight of Mr. Miller, his old history teacher, supervising recess, brought a cold ache to his bones. He watched his daughter, Lily, swing on the swingset. It was just a glance, but he felt the man staring at him.

He remembered the endless hours of history lectures. He didn’t enjoy them. He struggled to understand the subjects. He was always in trouble. The memory of Mr. Miller's stern voice, criticizing his performance, still echoed in his mind.

George felt a sudden need to shield Lily, to warn her. He instinctively moved closer to the swingset. He looked at the teacher, and his body began to shake. He had to get himself together. This was about Lily.

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