afraid - Story 840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification on her phone offered a world of secrets. She felt a sharp, stabbing sensation in her chest, and she found herself struggling to draw air. She took a deep breath, fighting to remain calm. She knew she shouldn’t have looked, but now, she couldn’t unsee what she had seen.

He was in the backyard, mowing the lawn. She watched him through the kitchen window, feeling an intense pressure building in her head. She knew he would be inside for dinner soon, and the idea of that conversation gave her a chill.

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