afraid - Story 359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t like the way the shadows moved in the attic. Thomas moved slowly, his flashlight beam never straying from the floor. He wanted to get this over with, to have a look and leave.

He found a locked chest, tarnished with age. He tried the handle. It wouldn't budge. He felt a compulsion to open it, to know what lay inside.

A scraping sound came from the other side of the room. He whirled around, his heart pounding. Just shadows again.

He backed away, realizing he couldn't face what might be in that chest.

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