afraid - Story 668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had only been ten minutes, but it felt like an eternity. Each tick of the clock was a hammer blow against her sanity. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She clutched her chest, as if she could physically hold her heart from leaping out.

The thought of being trapped, helpless, was unbearable. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to run, to escape. But there was nowhere to go.

She watched, her eyes wide, as her colleague, David, began to pace the confines of the elevator.

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