afraid - Story 816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“So, tell me about what's been going on,” he said, his voice soft. I crossed my arms, suddenly finding the room too cold. The room seemed to spin slightly. My gaze darted around, looking for an exit. The questions were benign, but they still felt like an ambush. I could feel the tension building in my jaw, and I pressed my teeth together. I couldn't meet his eyes, instead focusing intently on the grains of the wooden desk in front of me.

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