afraid - Story 289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The name on the screen sent a jolt through Jessica. It was from Robert, the boy who used to make her life miserable. Her hands began to tremble. Her heart rate had gone up. She wished she had never seen it.

She sat on the edge of her bed, her mind racing. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It had been so long since she had felt this sort of sensation.

She buried her face in her hands, trying to compose herself, her breath coming in ragged gasps. She wanted to be invisible. She wanted to disappear. She closed her eyes.

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