afraid - Story 550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the doorframe, his gaze fixed on the screen. The profile felt like a riddle he couldn’t solve. He felt his stomach clench and his hands felt sweaty. The carefully constructed images, the coded language, made him feel shut out, a trespasser in his own home.

He let out a shaky breath, the air whistling through his parted lips. The silence of the house seemed to press down on him. The fear twisted in his gut, and he felt a desperate desire to turn back time, to unsee what he'd just seen. He felt a deep, chilling emptiness.

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