afraid - Story 436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the website by accident, clicking through a link he didn't recognize. His award-winning sourdough recipe, the culmination of years of tireless work, was now featured on a competitor's site. It was presented as an original creation, a family legacy.

His fingers tightened into fists. He had shared the recipe in a moment of generosity, believing in the power of shared knowledge. The bitter taste in his mouth intensified the longer he looked at the pictures.

He slowly walked away from the computer and began to pace. Every step was deliberate, but his mind raced. The idea of confrontation felt impossible, but the thought of letting it go felt even worse.

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