afraid - Story 600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the room. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to be anywhere but here, confronting this reality.

He shoved his hands into his pockets, the hard edges of his keys pressing into his palms. He considered going for a drive, or a long walk, something to distract from the gnawing in his stomach. The carefully crafted world he'd built on the page seemed to crumble to dust.

He stood frozen, unsure of which way to go.

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