afraid - Story 737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a physical blow. Maya dropped her phone, the screen cracking. The image of the bright, sunny beach faded as a darkness washed over her. She knew this was coming, knew her best friend, Sarah, was dreaming of the West Coast. She just never imagined it would happen so soon.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void that threatened to consume her. She bit her lip hard, drawing blood. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, and she blinked rapidly, trying to stave off the emotion.

She felt a desperate need to find something, to reclaim some control. She picked up the phone, her hands shaking, and began to dial.

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