afraid - Story 765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd driven miles, the anticipation a dull ache in his chest. Now, he sat in his car, staring at the vacant patch of ground. His palms were slick with sweat, and he wiped them on his jeans. He couldn't move. He felt like the world was spinning. He had to blink several times to bring his vision back into focus, to make sure he was actually seeing this. The image remained: a void. He wanted to start the car and drive forever.

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