afraid - Story 624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny green dot appeared next to Mr. Davis's name on her Instagram follower list. Sarah’s chest constricted. She had always found Mr. Davis, her math teacher, to be a stern man. The idea of him scrolling through her profile filled her with a profound sense of disquiet. She felt a sharp pressure in her temples.

She abruptly closed the app, her hand trembling. The air in her room felt thick, heavy. She found herself staring at the reflection in her window, questioning. What did he want? What did he see?

The next day in class, she was unable to focus. The numbers on the board swam before her eyes. She jumped at the sound of Mr. Davis's voice, her heart leaping into her throat. She avoided his eyes, wanting nothing more than to disappear.

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