afraid - Story 269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood alone at the edge of the field, watching the team practice, the scene painted with a brutal beauty. The camaraderie, the laughter, the shared purpose: all now felt like a closed door. A coldness spread through her, chilling her to the bone despite the warm sun. Her hands, balled into fists, were buried deep in her pockets. Every muscle in her body felt frozen. She felt detached, a shadow watching the real world.

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