afraid - Story 448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had only been a few weeks since Kai had moved in with Jason, but already the small living space felt hostile. The journal, with its tell-tale bent corner, lay on the desk. Every word between them now felt loaded, heavy with the unspoken. Kai avoided Jason’s gaze, unable to shake the sensation of being exposed, vulnerable. He kept his headphones on, trying to create a barrier, a wall of sound between them, but the feeling remained. He wanted to scream.

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