afraid - Story 763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure?" Daniel asked, his voice barely a whisper. He knew. He'd seen the orange tape, the ominous machinery. But seeing the flattened earth, the absence of the familiar trunk, was a blow he wasn't prepared for. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He wanted to shout, to rage, but his voice was trapped. He stared at the void, feeling a coldness seep into his bones, a feeling like he might crumble to dust.

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