afraid - Story 627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message popped up in her direct messages: “Hi, it’s Mr. Evans! I really enjoyed your photo from the school trip. Great shots!” Sarah stared at her screen, stunned. Her stomach was doing flips, and she felt a pressure behind her eyes. He was following her? And messaging her? She didn’t know how to respond.

She scanned his profile, seeking answers. What did this mean? Was it innocent? Was it something else? The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. She closed the app and collapsed on her bed.

She was unable to sleep that night. She found herself imagining every possible scenario, each one more unsettling than the last. She pulled the covers over her head, feeling as though the world was closing in on her.

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