afraid - Story 473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheerful sound that immediately soured to something menacing in Elias's ears. He peered through the peephole, a delivery driver holding a package. For the previous resident. Mrs. Gable. A woman with a reputation.

He waited, immobile, until the driver gave up and left the package on the doorstep. His fingers tightened around the phone. He didn't want to go out there. He didn't want to touch it. He paced the length of his hallway. He considered calling the police. It would be easier than facing that box.

He finally opened the door, moving quickly, almost lunging, grabbing the package and bringing it inside. Now it was in his house.

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