afraid - Story 859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room was sterile and cold. The bucket list, his mother's final wish, lay on the bedside table. "Visit the Grand Canyon." It was so distant, so far away.

He didn't know if he could do it. He didn't know if he could face it. The idea of all that open space, all that exposure, filled him with unease.

His hands shook as he picked up the list. He forced himself to read the other wishes, each one a testament to his mother's adventurous spirit. He felt a lump in his throat and looked away, the room suddenly claustrophobic.

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