afraid - Story 458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive felt longer than it should have. Michael gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The results had arrived while he was at work. He should have waited, but curiosity had won. He replayed the email's words in his head over and over again, each repetition tightening a knot in his chest.

He needed to see his parents. To talk to them. The road ahead seemed to stretch endlessly, the landscape blurring. He glanced in the rearview mirror, checking his expression in the mirror; he looked ashen. He pressed harder on the accelerator, desperate to get home, needing to find something to ground him.

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