afraid - Story 803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. A number she didn't recognise. It was them, calling her. The voice mail she had listened to the day before played in her mind, a soft, unfamiliar voice introducing herself, claiming they were sisters. Maya hesitated, her finger hovering over the "ignore" button.

Her pulse hammered against her ribs. She paced her small apartment, the worn rug soft beneath her feet. The unfamiliar feeling made her want to retreat and hide. She wanted to scream, to disappear from the world. Instead, she sat down on her bed and stared at the phone.

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