afraid - Story 848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was the building manager. A complaint. Her hands shook as she answered. Her voice trembled as she tried to explain. After she hung up, she slumped against the wall, her legs refusing to support her.

She quickly locked the door and slid a chair underneath the handle. She switched off the lights and sat, clutching her knees. In the darkness, the sounds of the city seemed to amplify and distort, like a symphony of warnings.

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