afraid - Story 410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to exhale as they entered, a slow, mournful sigh that seemed to drain the energy from both of them. He forced himself to smile. "Well, here we are," he said, the words sounding hollow in his ears.

His sister, Grace, was already busy opening boxes, humming to herself. He couldn't bear to look at the shadows lurking in the corners of the room. He felt a sudden, urgent need to flee.

He looked over her. “I’m going to go check the backyard.” He didn’t wait for a response, hurrying out 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