afraid - Story 494 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced back and forth, the worn floorboards of his apartment creaking with each step. His jaw clenched, muscles tight. The patent office's rejection notice sat on the coffee table, a physical weight in the room. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a need to do something, anything, to release the tension that was building within him. The thought of losing everything made his vision swim.

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