afraid - Story 669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightness in his chest, a constriction that made it difficult to draw a full breath. He tried to maintain a composed demeanor, but his hands were trembling, betraying his inner turmoil. He could feel sweat beading on his forehead and the way his stomach was twisting.

He kept glancing at Susan, searching for some sign of reassurance, some indication that they would be rescued.

“How… how long has it been?” he asked, his voice cracking slightly. She didn't respond, and his heart sank.

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