afraid - Story 470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just the ring, Emily," his brother said, his voice too casual. But it wasn't just the ring. It was the ring his father gave his mother. She focused on the intricate details of the worn gold band, desperately trying to distract herself. A shiver ran down her spine, and her hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. She bit the inside of her cheek to stop herself from crying. Her chest felt constricted, as if a vise was tightening around her.

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