afraid - Story 339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs as she read the Facebook post: "Sad news: Sweet Surrender is closing its doors." The bakery, her refuge after a long day, a place of sugary solace.

She re-read the post several times. Each time, the words seemed to press down on her. The world around her seemed to shrink, closing in. She felt trapped.

She grabbed her keys and fled out of the house. She had to see the bakery, to confirm the truth, even if it meant confirming a profound sense of wrongness.

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