afraid - Story 745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thought that flashed through Ben’s mind was: *not again*. It was a thought that caused his stomach to churn. He’d seen a tree fall on a house once before. He couldn’t shake the memory.

He stood in the doorway, his eyes fixed on the gap in the neighbor’s fence. He could barely breathe.

His fists clenched as he began to pace back and forth. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over again, like he was trying to scrub something away.

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