afraid - Story 263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But…but why?" Her voice cracked, a tiny sound in the echoing silence of the locker room. The coach just shook his head, his expression unreadable. She felt a tremor run through her, a shudder that began in her toes and spread upwards, making her teeth chatter. The familiar smell of sweat and liniment, usually comforting, now felt suffocating. She fumbled with her bag, her fingers clumsy and useless. Every object seemed impossibly heavy.

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