afraid - Story 446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you doing alright?” Jessica asked, her voice wavering. She couldn’t meet Alex’s gaze. The journal, propped open on her desk, was unmistakable. The knot in her stomach tightened with each passing second. She felt a need to retreat to the sanctuary of the library, the only place where she felt safe. Alex’s casual demeanor felt like a mask, and the thought of breaking the illusion was too much to bear. Her voice cracked as she excused herself, hurrying away from the room.

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