afraid - Story 703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended, the numbers ticking upward with agonizing slowness. Inside, Sarah could feel the skin prickle on her arms. “You were the one with the… the pet newt, right?” David had asked, a nervous laugh escaping his lips. She focused on her breathing, trying to calm the sudden fluttering in her chest. The polished steel walls of the elevator seemed to close in around her, reflecting her strained expression. She gripped her briefcase until her knuckles were white, willing the doors to open.

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