afraid - Story 336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the crumpled flyer in his hand, the announcement stark against the faded paper. "The Hungry Hound: Closing Date Approaching." He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. The Hungry Hound was where he’d taken his wife on their first date. Now it would be gone.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. He found himself walking towards the Hound, his pace quickening.

He entered, the smell of burgers and fries a familiar comfort, but today it felt melancholic. He ordered a double cheeseburger, his usual, but found he couldn't eat more than a few bites. He felt an urge to weep.

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