afraid - Story 465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer's office smelled of old paper and dust. Across the mahogany desk, sat her uncle, his face a mask of false cheer. He wanted to sell the family estate, including the priceless tapestry in the dining room. Sarah pressed her hands to her knees, suddenly feeling very small. The room seemed to shrink around her, the walls closing in. She felt a strong urge to get up and run, to escape the suffocating atmosphere of the office and the impending loss.

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