afraid - Story 439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating, the air thick with tension. Carlos watched as the opposing lawyer presented his case, referencing his meticulously crafted salsa recipe. The recipe he spent years creating, now being claimed by a rival company.

His palms were slick with sweat. He focused on his breathing, trying to regain control. His chest felt constricted, as if a weight was pressing down on him.

He felt the urge to jump up, to shout, to deny everything. The accusations felt like a physical blow. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white.

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