afraid - Story 73 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the small café, mirroring the storm brewing inside Emily. She'd agreed to meet “Cipher,” the online friend who knew all her secrets. Now, here they were, in the same city. The thought played like a broken record in her head.

A sudden tremor ran through her, making her flinch. She’d always imagined Cipher differently. The door chimed, and a woman entered, her gaze sweeping across the room. Emily knew it was her, instinctively.

Emily’s vision blurred. The coffee cup in her hand trembled. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

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