afraid - Story 758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David paced the length of his living room, the unopened letter clutched in his hand. The paper crackled like a tiny, aggressive sound. His jaw was clenched, his eyes darting to the windows. He couldn't stop the tremors in his hands.

He'd spent years trying to forget, to bury the past. But this... this threatened to unravel everything. He felt a desperate need to control things, to ensure safety, to ensure that the nightmare didn't repeat itself. He was like a cornered animal, ready to lash out.

He stopped, held the letter up to the light.

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