afraid - Story 315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He greeted her at the door with a nervous smile, his palms damp. He had a small package in his hands, wrapped in unfamiliar paper. She noticed the slight tremor in his fingers as he handed it to her. Her gaze flicked to his eyes. They were wide, darting about the room.

The air around him felt charged, thick with unspoken words. She felt a tightening in her chest, a difficulty in drawing a full breath. She took the package, her fingers fumbling with the wrapping. She had a feeling she was about to unwrap a truth she would find hard to bear.

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