afraid - Story 297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elaborate cake, the decorations, the meticulously planned speeches – all a waste. The text message, short and blunt, told the story. Her fingers fumbled with the phone, dropping it onto the floor. She stared at it, unmoving, the screen showing the offensive words. A strange tightness gripped her throat, making it difficult to swallow. She remained motionless for a long moment, then slowly sunk onto the couch.

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