afraid - Story 619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tried to appear casual, mingling with the other guests, but her forced smiles felt brittle. Inside, she was a tightly wound spring, ready to snap. She kept touching her hair, adjusting her dress.

She caught glimpses of the stage, the microphone, and each one tightened her chest. She needed to escape. She needed to disappear.

She retreated to the restroom again, the cool tiles offering a small measure of comfort. She leaned against the wall, trying to regain some control. It was only a few minutes. She could do this. She had to.

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