afraid - Story 239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat flushed over her as she scrolled through the website. It was her diary, every word, every drawing, every adolescent fantasy laid bare. She felt as though the floor beneath her was about to disappear.

Her hands, clammy and trembling, clutched at the desk. She wanted to scream, to shatter something. She needed to get out, away from this digital cage.

She stood up and paced. Each footstep felt wrong, each movement clumsy. She felt pinned, paralyzed, by a force she couldn't understand. She began to hyperventilate.

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