afraid - Story 707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales meeting felt longer than usual. The way Amy kept glancing at him... made Charles feel as though someone was reaching inside of him. “You didn’t happen to… do any archery at Whispering Pines, did you?” He managed to choke out a response, feeling his voice crack. Suddenly, the conference room seemed to shrink, trapping him. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. Instead, he forced a smile, a shaky movement that he was sure betrayed his state of mind, and busied himself with the meeting’s documents.

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