afraid - Story 357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt oppressive, a weight on his shoulders. James shuffled forward, the flashlight beam dancing across the dusty floor. He didn't want to be here. Not at all.

He found a music box. The intricate carvings of the wood seemed to stare at him. Hesitantly, he lifted the lid. A tinkling melody filled the air.

As the music played, he saw a shadowy figure dart across the far corner of the room. He slammed the lid shut, his hands trembling.

He quickly backed away, needing to put as much distance between himself and this space.

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