afraid - Story 670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humming of the elevator had stopped, leaving a deafening silence. A cold fear had started to grip him. The weight of the steel walls pressing down on him felt immense. He found himself incapable of stillness, his muscles twitching. He began to rub his arms.

He noticed the other person in the elevator, a woman he vaguely knew as Emily, staring intently at the floor.

“Emily?” he asked, but his voice was swallowed by the emptiness. He felt the blood leave his face. He pressed his face to the door and began to shout.

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