afraid - Story 699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break was a mistake. Mark watched his colleague, David, across the table, picking at his food, his appetite seemingly nonexistent. It was the tension, Mark knew. The unspoken contest.

He kept up a facade of normalcy, discussing the weekend plans. But inside, his chest felt tight, constricted. He knew David was strong, that his performance was good.

He managed a few bites of his sandwich, but the taste was lost. The voices of the other diners faded, and he only saw David, and the prospect of defeat. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being trapped.

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