afraid - Story 405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The peeling wallpaper seemed to leer at Daniel as he walked through the hallway. He told himself he was just tired, but his heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs.

His sister, Sarah, was happily rummaging through boxes in the living room. "This place is full of treasures!" she exclaimed, oblivious. Daniel found himself constantly glancing over his shoulder.

He pulled at his collar, feeling a sudden surge of heat. He needed to get some air. He had to keep moving.

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