afraid - Story 258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. He stared at the printed copy of the journal article. The byline… it was not his. A wave of dizziness washed over him. His mouth felt dry.

He sat down heavily, the chair groaning under his weight. He felt a flutter in his chest, a sense of panic rising. The thought of the repercussions – the lost opportunities, the damaged reputation – filled him with a profound unease.

He pushed the journal away, his hand trembling. He wanted to escape, to run away from this whole situation. He leaned his head against the wall, trying to regain his composure. He closed his eyes.

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