afraid - Story 240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to blur, the words on the website swimming before Maya’s eyes. Her diary, her private thoughts, were now public. A coldness settled deep within her chest. She couldn't breathe.

Her hands moved to her chest, as if she could physically hold the feeling at bay. She backed away from the desk, moving further and further from the source of the pain. She wanted to run and hide.

The air felt thick, difficult to navigate. The world tilted and she closed her eyes, hoping that when she opened them again, it would be gone.

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