afraid - Story 743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dad?" Maya’s voice was a whisper, her eyes wide as saucers. The sound of the falling tree had been deafening, even inside their house. Now, the quiet was even worse.

Her father didn't reply, just stared out the window, his jaw clenched, his knuckles white against the windowsill. She'd never seen him so... still. It was like he was a statue.

“Should we… should we go see?” she finally ventured, her own voice barely audible. He didn’t look at her, didn’t acknowledge her question.

She backed away slowly, retreating towards her room, the image of the fallen tree burned into her memory.

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