afraid - Story 442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept her back to the door, fiddling with the frayed hem of her jeans. The discovery of the misplaced journal pages had her stomach churning with unease. She hadn’t slept well since, every creak and rustle in the shared room jolting her awake. Each time her roommate, Emily, turned the page of a book, Sarah flinched, imagining her prying eyes skimming over her private thoughts. The thought of confronting Emily made her throat tighten. She needed to know, but the thought of the conversation itself made her want to disappear.

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