afraid - Story 479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark stared at the box, the words on the label blurring through his tears. It was for "Mr. Silas Black," but the address matched his. The memories were flooding back, the scent of the house, the taste of everything, the sounds of her laughter.

He thought of his wife. He thought of her things being gone, her scent being gone. He didn't want to open the box. He didn't want to find anything. He didn't want to face anything.

He slowly walked away. He went to the bedroom and closed the door. He wanted to scream.

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