afraid - Story 692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the big news, eh?" Mark’s voice, overly cheerful, grated on Amelia's nerves. She forced a smile, a brittle thing that didn't quite reach her eyes. The promotion. She thought of the responsibility, the pressure. It was all too much.

Her mouth felt dry, as if she'd swallowed sand. She took a deliberate sip of water, trying to compose herself. Mark was leaning against her desk, radiating an easy confidence that Amelia found infuriating. She knew he wanted it too.

"Yeah," Amelia managed, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at her hands, fiddling with a pen. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The weight of her ambitions suddenly felt crushing.

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