afraid - Story 802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its crisp white surface mocking him. The words, so neatly typed, detailed a life he knew nothing about – a life shared with his father, but not with him. Liam felt a cold knot tighten in his chest.

He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, his knuckles white. The accusations the letter contained, the implication that his father had betrayed his mother and him, clawed at him. He abruptly kicked at a loose box, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of the house. He couldn’t bring himself to open the letter again.

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