afraid - Story 358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was still, heavy with a silent tension. Her footsteps echoed with unnatural loudness. Jessica's breath hitched as she stepped inside.

A dollhouse, remarkably intact, sat on a table. She peered through the tiny windows. Furnishings were in place. A sense of wrongness invaded her.

She heard a faint giggle, a sound that seemed to come from inside the dollhouse itself. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could wake up from this nightmare.

She turned and fled, desperate to escape.

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