afraid - Story 219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast, imposing. The weight of the world pressed down on Liam. "But the knife wasn't in his hand, was it?" he asked, his voice lost in the acoustics of the room. He could feel sweat gathering on his brow. He clasped his hands together in front of him, trying to stop the trembling.

His friend, Mark, who was on the witness stand, met his gaze, his eyes devoid of any emotion. "Yes, Liam. It was. I saw it." Liam's vision swam. The memory, so clear in his mind, had begun to fray, the edges blurring. The pressure in his chest was becoming unbearable. The room seemed to be spinning.

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