afraid - Story 535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with the usual Friday afternoon chatter, but for Olivia, the noise felt like a relentless assault. The news, delivered to her in a terse email, was a weight she could barely bear. The scholarship money wasn't hers. A knot formed in her gut. She took a shaky sip of water, the cold liquid doing little to soothe the heat that bloomed in her cheeks.

She looked around, feeling exposed, like everyone was watching her. She wanted to disappear into the crowd. She could feel her hands trembling. She suddenly hated the smell of the food.

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