afraid - Story 414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the curb, the wallet a burning coal in his pocket. The setting sun cast long, distorted shadows that danced and twisted around him, seeming to mock his dilemma. His stomach churned. He pulled the wallet out, staring at the money as if it were a venomous snake. His palms were slick with perspiration. He heard a siren in the distance, and he quickly snapped the wallet shut. He imagined them finding it, his fingerprints, his presence. He had to think of something.

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