afraid - Story 350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long, distorted shadows across the lawn. The bear was sitting on a stained blanket. The sight of it sent a shiver through Alex. His throat closed. He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t want to see it. He'd thought he had escaped.

His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the stillness. His mouth was dry, his tongue thick and clumsy.

The seller, a young girl no older than ten, came to the edge of the blanket. “Are you gonna buy him? He's lonely." Alex shook his head, unable to meet the girl's gaze, and hurried away, the bear's faded eyes burning into the back of his mind.

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