afraid - Story 838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safe deposit box key felt heavy in her hand. She drove to the bank, each turn of the key a click of doubt. Her breath came in short, shallow puffs. The interior of the bank, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a prison.

When she returned home, he was sitting on the porch, waiting. His face was unreadable. She walked towards him, her steps slow. The silence between them was as heavy as the box she had just emptied.

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