afraid - Story 709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual mention of "Camp Silver Birch" sent a shiver down her spine. The cafeteria lights seemed to dim, casting long shadows that danced in the corners of her vision. Her appetite vanished, replaced by a knot of anxiety in her stomach. She stared at the uneaten salad on her plate, the vibrant greens now seeming dull and unappetizing. She mumbled something about a stomach bug and stood up to leave, the sudden movement nearly causing her to lose her balance.

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