afraid - Story 750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone sat on the counter, a silent, menacing presence. Liam stared at it, his throat constricted. Should he call? Call who?

He remembered the screaming wind and the violent crack. Now, the stillness felt more profound, more menacing, than the storm itself.

He took a deep breath, trying to steady his nerves. He'd never liked this silence. Every tick of the clock was a hammer blow against his ears. He looked out at the scene through the window.

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