afraid - Story 696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coffee?" Liam asked, his voice wavering slightly. He stared at the barista, unable to meet her gaze. The promotion was on everyone's mind, and he hadn't slept well in days.

He felt the familiar pressure in his chest, a heavy weight that made it hard to breathe. He knew what he wanted, but he was plagued by constant thoughts of incompetence. He was sure he'd mess it up.

He gripped the counter, his knuckles white. The barista asked again, the silence making it worse. "Just black, please," he managed, his voice barely audible. He clutched the hot cup, needing the warmth.

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