afraid - Story 767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light felt harsh, too bright. He stood frozen, his eyes fixed on the devastation. He couldn't believe it. He'd imagined this day, but he'd never prepared for it. His stomach churned. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to disappear. He backed away slowly, as if the remaining debris held some kind of unseen, dangerous power. He hugged himself, feeling chilled even though the sun was warm.

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