afraid - Story 445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent light of the dorm room seemed to amplify the silence. Michael felt his pulse jump whenever he heard his roommate, David, shift in his sleep. The journal. He hadn't confronted David, the evidence was not definitive, but he’d seen the slight smudge on the cover, a mark only he knew was new. He found himself picking at the skin around his thumbnails, a habit he hadn't indulged in years. Every breath felt shallow, as if the air was thin.

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