afraid - Story 440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report blared from the television, the image of the famous chef, holding up *her* cake, filling the screen. Her eyes were fixed on the screen, but her mind was elsewhere. Her recipe, the very one she had dreamed of selling, now belonging to someone else.

Her breathing quickened. She took a step back from the television, her hands flying to her mouth, covering her face. A single tear tracked down her cheek. The dream she had dedicated her life to was gone.

She stumbled back, away from the screen, and into a chair, overwhelmed.

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