afraid - Story 208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The front door slammed shut behind him, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet. He fumbled with his phone, his fingers clumsy with adrenaline. The numbers seemed to swim before his eyes. His gaze flicked repeatedly across the empty driveway.

The world seemed to constrict, the air thick and heavy. A tremor ran through him. He imagined every possible negative outcome, each scenario more terrifying than the last. He wished he could just rewind time, go back to before he saw the truck.

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