afraid - Story 815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle tapping of his pen against the notepad felt like a drumbeat, steadily increasing the tempo of my unease. I found myself picking at a loose thread on my sleeve, a frantic attempt to occupy my hands. The air in the room felt suddenly thin, making it difficult to breathe. My responses were short, almost monosyllabic. I just wanted to be anywhere else. I kept replaying our past, as the memories flooded back, and felt the familiar pressure in my chest.

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