afraid - Story 268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital dagger to the heart. His hands, usually steady, shook so violently he could barely click the attachment. He stared at the list, his name conspicuously absent. The world tilted. His mouth went dry. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him, leaving him cold and clammy. His breath came in ragged gasps. He wanted to vanish, to disappear into the screen.

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