afraid - Story 665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of fear filled the elevator. His legs felt shaky, and a wave of nausea washed over him. He felt his face grow hot. He needed air. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He pressed his back against the wall.

He watched John, his coworker, struggling to remain composed. He seemed as pale as the fluorescent lights that cast their sickly glow.

“Are… are you alright?” John asked, his voice strained. It was almost a demand, not a question. Liam could only manage a nod.

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