afraid - Story 312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was unusually quiet at dinner, picking at his food with a distracted air. She’d made his favorite dish, a traditional meal from her homeland, but he barely touched it. He kept glancing at her, his expression unreadable. A chill ran down her spine. The silence in the room was suffocating.

"Is everything alright?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. He met her gaze for a split second, then quickly looked away, a flush creeping up his neck. He mumbled something about being tired, but she didn’t believe him. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt the urge to grab her coat and run out into the night.

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