afraid - Story 844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can you keep it down?" The voice, gruff and accusatory, echoed through the thin walls. David winced, his hand involuntarily rising to shield his face. His knuckles were white as he gripped the table. The sudden silence from the other side of the wall was the worst.

He started, his breath catching in his throat. He strained to hear anything. A dripping faucet, a car passing, even the rhythmic ticking of the clock on the wall felt like the hammering of a heartbeat. He wanted to run, to vanish. To be anywhere but here.

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