afraid - Story 355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of mothballs was overpowering. Michael held his breath, pushing deeper into the attic. He felt a prickly sensation at the back of his neck. He wished he had brought someone with him.

He uncovered a trunk filled with old clothes. A dress, a hat, a man’s coat. The coat felt oddly heavy when he picked it up.

He swore he heard a faint whisper. He spun around, flashlight beam cutting through the gloom. Nothing.

He dropped the coat as if it burned his hand. He needed to get out of this space. Now.

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