afraid - Story 404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she stepped inside, Emily felt a prickling at the back of her neck, a sensation of being watched. She busied herself with unpacking, her movements quick and jerky.

Her brother, David, was busy in the garage, tinkering with tools. She heard him talking, moving and whistling. She forced a smile to her face to give the illusion of everything being alright. The house was so quiet, except for the occasional distant creak.

She jumped at a sudden loud bang. It was just a shutter slamming in the wind, but it was enough to make her gasp. She closed the door.

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