afraid - Story 74 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email had confirmed it: "Raven" lived just blocks away. David reread the message, a coldness spreading through him. He’d confessed so much to this person, things he’d never said to anyone else. Now, the imagined comfort of anonymity was gone.

He found himself pacing his apartment, the hardwood floor creaking under his rapid steps. He glanced at the clock constantly. He shouldn’t have agreed to meet.

He had promised to meet Raven at the art gallery. His hands felt clammy as he locked the door behind him.

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