afraid - Story 776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather of the journal felt cold against Caleb's skin. His sister, Sarah, had inherited their father's lucrative law firm; he, a seemingly insignificant box of old photographs. A prickling sensation spread across his skin as he carefully opened the first page.

The cursive handwriting was unfamiliar, yet somehow intimate. The faces in the fading photographs seemed to watch him, their smiles enigmatic. A deep thrumming began in his ears.

Sarah breezed in, a triumphant smile on her face. "Ready to take over the firm, Caleb? I'm already winning cases left and right!" Caleb swallowed and clutched the journal tighter.

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