afraid - Story 333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen, a stark headline: “Grandma Rosa's to Close After 45 Years." Her hands started to shake. She reached for the remote, her fingers fumbling, and clicked it off. The silence that followed was worse.

She imagined the cozy warmth of the place, the smell of freshly baked bread that always met her at the door, the familiar hug from Grandma Rosa herself. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She tried to busy herself, starting the dishes, folding the laundry. Each action felt mechanical, devoid of purpose. The thought of losing such a crucial piece of her life made her want to run, but there was nowhere to go.

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