afraid - Story 786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, heart hammering against his ribs. The pictures showed the house he had grown up in, but it was…wrong. Alien.

He felt a primal urge to protect something. To push away the intrusion, the violation. It felt deeply personal, like an invasion of privacy.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sudden darkness momentarily relieving. He found himself pacing the room, his movements erratic, his breathing shallow.

His vision blurred. He felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to disappear, to hide. The house was not supposed to be touched, it was not supposed to be moved.

He reached for his phone, then stopped, his hand trembling. Who could he call? Who would understand this… this… disruption?

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