afraid - Story 799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual remark from the police officer, “This place has seen some things”, felt like a weight on her chest. She had learned there was a double homicide in the kitchen. She felt a knot in her stomach, imagining the scene.

She started jumping at every sound. The house felt colder, darker. She felt the urge to pace, to stay moving, to escape the feeling that she was being watched.

When she heard the soft scratch at her window in the middle of the night, she was too frozen to move.

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