afraid - Story 462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She clutched the porcelain doll, its painted eyes seeming to follow her every move. This doll, passed down through generations, was her grandmother's. Now her mother wished to sell it, a necessity given their mounting debts. Sara felt a coldness creep through her, a prickling sensation that traveled up her spine. She kept her gaze fixed on the doll, its once cheerful expression now mocking her helplessness. Her breath hitched, and she blinked rapidly, trying to keep the tears at bay.

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