afraid - Story 295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was short, curt. "No party. Something came up." The words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. Clara felt a strange disconnect, as if she were observing herself from a distance. The initial shock gave way to a wave of coldness that numbed her fingers and toes. She walked to the window, the city lights blurring into an indistinguishable haze. She gripped the windowsill so hard her knuckles turned white. The silence in the room was deafening.

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