afraid - Story 47 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, usually boisterous and playful, cowered at Alice’s feet. Every crash sent it whimpering under the table. Alice hugged the dog tight, her own breath shallow.

She found herself talking to the dog in soothing tones, as much for her own benefit as for his. Her appetite vanished. She picked at her food, unable to swallow. The food felt like it was stuck in her throat.

She tried to distract herself. But her mind kept returning to the constant upheaval next door. She thought of calling the police, even though she had no reason to. She just wanted the noise to end, to regain control.

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