afraid - Story 620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before, and the lack of rest only amplified his internal unrest. His stomach churned as he entered the room, and he found it difficult to concentrate on the conversations around him. He felt trapped.

He had rehearsed the speech countless times, but now the words deserted him. His mind went blank. He found a quiet corner, away from the noise and the chatter, and tried to ground himself.

He knew his mother was watching him, expecting him. The weight of her expectation, combined with his own anxieties, became almost unbearable. He could only hope he could get through it.

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