afraid - Story 447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the room seemed to lengthen as the sun began to set. Daniel found himself unable to focus on his textbooks. He'd seen the journal lying open, the pages slightly askew. He glanced at his roommate, Kevin, who was humming to himself, oblivious. He couldn’t breathe properly. The knowledge gnawed at him, twisting in his gut. He thought he saw Kevin glance at him, and he looked away.

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