afraid - Story 456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you found them?" Her sister's voice, full of casual interest, cut through the air. The question was a physical blow. Jess lowered her gaze, unable to meet her sister’s eyes. She had been avoiding this conversation all morning. She took a long, slow breath.

She’d deleted the emails after barely glancing at them, but the details wouldn't leave her. The sudden shock, the way her world tilted sideways. Her legs felt weak. She didn’t know how to explain the churning in her stomach, the feeling that she had lost something without even knowing what it was. She kept her voice as steady as she could. "Yeah."

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