afraid - Story 27 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her chest. The drawing, a crude but recognizable depiction of "The Shadow Man" adorned the refrigerator. The figure was reaching, long arms extending toward her. Her nephew, little Leo, ran toward her, chattering excitedly.

She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The hallway seemed to narrow, the walls pressing in. She had to get away, to create distance between herself and the artwork.

"Leo, let's go get some ice cream!" she blurted out, her voice higher than usual. She grabbed her keys and fled out the door, the unsettling image burned into her mind.

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