afraid - Story 449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice a tight, high-pitched squeak, Olivia asked, “Did you… did you see my journal?” Across the room, her roommate, Chloe, was scrolling through her phone, seemingly unconcerned. The journal’s binding was ever so slightly bent on the top left corner, and the pages were not as she left them. Olivia felt a rising tide of sickness. A tremor ran through her limbs. She started pacing, needing to physically expel the excess energy. The answer was already known, but she couldn’t bear to hear the confirmation.

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