afraid - Story 76 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Ghost” had sent a cryptic message: “Meet me by the old oak tree.” Liam’s stomach twisted into knots as he prepared. He’d talked to Ghost for hours, and now the unknown was about to become tangible.

He kept replaying every conversation, searching for clues, for anything he might have missed. His throat was tight, and it was becoming harder to swallow. He imagined every possible scenario.

He saw the tree in the distance, and the feeling intensified. He wanted to turn, but his legs wouldn’t listen.

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