afraid - Story 28 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew heavy, almost oppressive. I watched as my nephew, Sam, proudly presented his latest drawing. The character in the picture was "The Tracker", and my stomach churned. It was the manifestation of a childhood fear I'd kept locked away.

I could feel a tingling sensation spread throughout my body. I wanted to turn away, to run. Sam was chatting away, and I forced a smile.

"He's playing hide and seek with me, Auntie Liz!" he said with a grin. I felt my smile falter. I excused myself, claiming a sudden headache, and retreated to the bathroom, needing a moment of solitude.

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