afraid - Story 260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email's subject line - "Congratulations on Your Publication!" - felt like a cruel joke. He stared at the article, his vision blurring. The words were his, but the name wasn't. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his side.

He retreated to the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. He felt a tremor run through his body. He braced himself against the sink. The thought of facing this, of fighting for recognition, left him feeling depleted.

He stared at his reflection, a stranger staring back. The enormity of the situation hung over him. He felt an intense need to withdraw, to disappear from view. He took a deep breath, and the feeling lingered.

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