afraid - Story 540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked aimlessly, his backpack heavy on his shoulders. The message from the university, the one that had ruined his hopes, echoed in his mind. The scholarship had been misapplied. He stopped walking, and leaned against a tree. He felt a deep hollowness in his chest.

He felt the need to disappear. He felt the need to hide. He needed to be alone. He felt a chill, even though the sun was warm on his skin.

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