afraid - Story 468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silver locket, a miniature portrait of his mother inside, felt cold against his skin. His cousin, eager to fund his new business venture, suggested selling it. Daniel stared at the locket, the weight of its potential absence pressing down on him. A sudden wave of nausea washed over him, and he instinctively took a step back, as if physically warding off the coming separation. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands.

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