afraid - Story 501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The slam of the back gate echoed in her chest. She froze, mid-watering-can pour, the droplets suspending themselves in the air like tiny, shimmering beacons. Her gaze darted towards the fence, her breath hitching in her throat. The scruffy terrier from next door was already halfway across her lawn, tail wagging, nose twitching. She slowly lowered the watering can, her knuckles white against the green plastic. A coldness spread through her limbs. She knew what came next. She always did.

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