afraid - Story 443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold sweat slicked down Elias’s palms as he watched Liam, his roommate, type on his laptop. He’d seen the journal, carelessly left open on the bed that morning. A quick glance. He'd closed it immediately, but the damage was done. Every shared glance, every casual conversation between them now seemed tainted, colored by the knowledge of what Liam might know. He found himself avoiding eye contact, retreating into the recesses of his mind. He couldn’t seem to swallow.

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