afraid - Story 38 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, jolting Arthur out of his uneasy sleep. He hesitated before answering, a knot forming in his stomach. The caller ID displayed an unknown number. He swallowed and answered.

A voice on the other end, warm and overly friendly, mentioned the book. His biography. The man was inviting him to a book launch. Arthur felt his skin prickle with the first tendrils of panic. He didn't want to go, couldn't go.

The voice kept talking, oblivious to Arthur's mounting distress. He stammered a refusal, his voice thin and shaky. He fumbled with the phone, hanging up abruptly. He didn't want to talk anymore. He felt a need to hide, to sever all ties. He dropped to his knees, his mind racing.

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