afraid - Story 353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hinges of the attic door screamed in protest as Emily forced it open. She shivered, though the house was warm. The air inside felt heavy, suffocating. She hesitated on the threshold.

A faded photograph lay on top of a trunk, depicting a woman in a long dress. Emily picked it up, her fingers trembling. The woman’s eyes seemed to follow her.

A floorboard groaned behind her. She whirled around, heart hammering against her ribs. There was nothing there. Just shadows.

She put the photograph back down, her breath catching in her throat. She needed to leave, to get back downstairs, into the sunlight.

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