afraid - Story 714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words, sharp and precise, sliced through the already fragile peace of the room. Sarah’s vision blurred; the room seemed to spin. The eviction notice was not just a piece of paper, but a weapon.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck, her cheeks burning. Her pulse hammered in her ears, a relentless drumbeat that threatened to drown out everything else.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, pale and distorted. She squeezed her eyes shut. She wasn't sure she could face tomorrow.

She wanted to run, to hide, but where could she go?

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