afraid - Story 567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He stared at the giant inflatable obstacle course he’d rented for his party, which cost a small fortune. His friend, Brian, was throwing a party at the arcade.

He felt like there was a boulder pressing down on his chest. He spent so much time and money, and nobody was showing up.

He closed his eyes, picturing the noise of Brian's party, the flashing lights. He had to decide now. His party would start soon. He was desperate.

He opened his mouth to speak to his parents, but he couldn't form the words. The air in his lungs felt thin, as if the room had suddenly become devoid of oxygen. He felt like he was drowning.

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