afraid - Story 474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, innocuous. Almost too small. Its lightness felt wrong in Amelia's hands. She hadn't expected anything. Certainly not this. The house felt too quiet.

Her gaze darted from shadow to shadow. She wished she had a dog. She wished she wasn't alone. She thought of her father, of his gruff words. He'd tell her to just leave it. She thought of calling her sister, but she knew she'd be teased.

She ran upstairs and then checked all the locks. Each click echoed. She locked the bedroom door. She sat on the bed. What if she opened it? What if she didn't?

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