afraid - Story 492 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the lawyer, the words blurring on his lips. Her breath hitched, catching in her throat like a trapped bird. Her fingers traced the rim of the coffee cup, a nervous habit she’d had since childhood. A tremor ran through her, starting in her toes and spreading upwards. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, pressing down on her shoulders. "But... but it's different," she stammered, the words barely a whisper.

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