afraid - Story 564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from Sarah arrived with a sickening thud. A confirmation for her friend’s party - the same night as Noah’s. He crumpled the paper, his hands trembling. He’d poured his heart into planning this. A backyard barbecue, a bonfire, all designed to create the perfect night.

The space in his chest felt hollow. He imagined the laughter echoing at the beach, the casual ease of a fun party. He knew the crowd would choose the beach over his.

He started to pace, his steps erratic and uncontrolled. He envisioned all his friends, enjoying themselves at Sarah’s party, and an overwhelming ache settled into his shoulders.

The thought of going to Sarah's party was out of the question. He couldn't face the pitying looks.

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