afraid - Story 354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashlight beam trembled in David's hand as he surveyed the attic. A long, narrow room, filled with forgotten treasures. Or, he realized, not treasures. Leftovers. He felt a creeping unease.

He found a collection of porcelain dolls, their painted faces staring blankly ahead. One had a missing arm. He recoiled slightly.

A sudden gust of wind rattled the single window, causing the attic door to slam shut with a loud bang. He jumped, his heart leaping into his throat.

He fumbled for the handle, his hands slick with sweat. The door wouldn’t budge. Trapped.

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