afraid - Story 420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the wallet seemed to increase with every passing moment. The bills inside were so clean, so crisp, and yet, they felt like a heavy stone in his pocket. He sat on a bench, in the middle of a crowded square, but even the noise of the city failed to calm the frantic pounding in his chest. His gaze flitted from one face to the next, searching for something, anything that could make him feel safe. He felt exposed, naked, even in the bustling throng.

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