afraid - Story 538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus library felt suffocating, its usual hum of activity now a deafening roar. Daniel sat hunched over his laptop, the words on the screen blurring. He was staring at the official email, but he couldn't process the meaning. A tremor coursed through his body. He felt a deep, chilling dread. The financial aid, the thing that allowed him to study, was not his.

He felt the urge to erase everything, to somehow rewind time. He slammed the laptop shut, and slammed his fist on the table.

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