afraid - Story 40 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The writer, the culprit, stared at him from across the crowded café. Mark was frozen, his coffee cup clutched tightly in his hand. He recognised the face from the author's photo on the book jacket. The man smiled and raised his hand in greeting. Mark’s world tilted.

He felt a deep sense of vulnerability, an unwanted exposure. He avoided eye contact, glancing around the room, trying to find a way out. His heart thudded against his ribs. He felt a powerful urge to flee. He couldn't speak, he couldn’t move.

He finally stood up, knocking over his chair in the process. He didn’t bother to apologize. He darted out of the café, needing 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