afraid - Story 789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared on her newsfeed like a sudden, unwelcome guest. She wanted to look away, but couldn't. Her fingers were frozen.

The house. The house. It looked so… changed. The garden was meticulously manicured, and the air felt different.

She felt a sharp pain in her chest, a physical blow. She sat there, unable to move, unable to breathe properly.

The words in the description seemed to mock her. "Move-in ready!" "Perfect for entertaining!" She felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

She finally stood, mechanically, and walked to the kitchen, seeking a glass of water. Her hands were shaking. She felt like she was watching a play, a tragedy, with herself as the sole audience.

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