afraid - Story 790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the listing late at night, the screen glowing in the darkness. He felt a coldness wash over him. His stomach churned.

He recognized the street, the trees, the familiar shape of the house. But something was… wrong. Distorted.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, an unrelenting pressure. He didn't want this. He didn't want anyone else to see it.

He sat there, unable to look away, yet wanting desperately to escape. The feeling of being trapped intensified with each image.

He leaned forward, pressing his forehead against the cool surface of the desk, the world spinning around him. He needed out.

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