afraid - Story 536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the phone, the information repeating in his head. The scholarship wasn’t his. It was a mistake. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble prickle against his skin. He was going to fail. He felt paralyzed, unable to move.

He imagined the phone call to his mom, and the ensuing disappointment. He suddenly felt incredibly small, insignificant. He needed to be alone. He walked to the window, and watched the city go by.

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