afraid - Story 764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gravel crunched under her boots as Clara walked toward the clearing. She stopped short, her legs locking. It was gone. The ancient maple, the sentinel of her childhood, reduced to a jagged wound in the earth. She took a shaky breath, her gaze darting around, as if expecting something to jump out and grab her. The familiar sounds of the woods – the birdsong, the breeze – were suddenly menacing, filled with unseen threats. She wanted to scream.

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