afraid - Story 713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The officer's monotone voice echoed in Leo's head. The official summons, a printed notification, was now lying on his coffee table. He struggled to maintain a semblance of composure, forcing a smile that felt brittle and forced.

He nodded, forcing a smile, as the uniformed man departed. Then the veneer cracked. He locked the door and slid down the wall, his legs no longer able to support him. The world seemed to tilt.

He saw the dust motes again, illuminated by the fading sunlight. Each breath became an effort, a struggle against the crushing weight in his chest. His hands trembled as he reached for a cigarette, his fingers clumsy and uncoordinated.

He thought of the impending winter, the cold and the solitude.

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