afraid - Story 493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the workbench. Michael stared at it, the familiar jingle now a menacing sound. His stomach churned. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat echoing in his ears. He let it ring, again and again. The silence that followed was worse. He swallowed hard, his throat dry. Sunlight streamed through the workshop window, but the room was suddenly dim.

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