afraid - Story 678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university cafeteria bustled with lunch crowds, but he felt a world away from the general cheer. The news of Dr. Klein's departure had left him feeling adrift. He pushed his half-eaten sandwich around the plate, appetite lost. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a desperate need to escape, to be alone with his thoughts. The noise and activity of the cafeteria grated on his nerves. He stood, knocking over his chair in his haste to leave.

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