afraid - Story 759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Margaret’s throat tightened as she saw the familiar handwriting on the envelope. Years. She'd thought she was safe. A coldness spread through her. The air conditioning blasted, but she still felt a prickling heat crawling up her neck.

She hadn’t let anyone past the gate in weeks. Every shadow seemed to move on its own accord. She pressed her hand to her chest, trying to steady her racing heart. The house felt like a cage. She couldn't breathe.

She slowly picked up a pair of kitchen scissors.

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