afraid - Story 450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Noah’s chest made it hard to breathe. He found the journal on the floor, near his roommate, Sam's bed. The pages were open to a particularly sensitive entry. He watched Sam from across the room, noting the casual way Sam went about their daily tasks. Each word, each gesture, seemed to mock his vulnerability. He gripped the edge of the bed, his knuckles white. The atmosphere felt toxic, as though everything he thought and felt was suddenly not his own.

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