afraid - Story 497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen counter, its crisp white surface mocking him. John recoiled from it, as if it was a venomous snake. His palms felt clammy. He backed away from the counter, his gaze fixated on the offending piece of paper. The familiar scent of coffee from the morning's brew, usually comforting, now seemed to mock him. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat.

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