afraid - Story 622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A prickle of unease settled on Leo’s shoulders as he spotted the new follower. Mr. Harrison, his history teacher, had requested to follow him. His pulse quickened. He hadn't expected it. He hastily scrolled through his feed, a wave of apprehension washing over him. The things he had posted with his friends. The comments. The late-night memes.

He imagined Mr. Harrison, arms crossed, studying his profile. Judging. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His hand moved to his chest, the heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to delete everything.

The next day in class, he couldn't meet Mr. Harrison’s gaze. He kept his head down, the words on the worksheet blurring. He found his hands fidgeting with his pen, a restless energy buzzing through him. The world felt too small, too close.

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