afraid - Story 628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Followed by Mr. Henderson…” The notification flashed on his phone. Ethan felt the blood drain from his face. His English teacher. The man who seemed to know everything. He’d made a few… less-than-flattering comments about the school on his private account.

He quickly scanned his feed. He thought of his recent posts about the school cafeteria food. The snarky comments about his homework. He felt a burning heat in his cheeks.

He imagined Mr. Henderson's expression as he scrolled through his profile. The potential for trouble. The sheer, overwhelming awkwardness. He felt the urgent need to run, to hide. The thought filled him with a cold dread.

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