afraid - Story 860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the house settled around him as Daniel examined the list. Item number one: "Forgive." He swallowed hard. His relationship with his father had been strained, filled with unspoken resentments.

The task felt impossibly difficult. The air in the living room felt charged, heavy. He couldn't meet his gaze in the mirror.

He felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear. He clutched the list, his knuckles white. The house, usually a comfort, now felt like a prison. He sank into a chair, his body trembling.

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